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Brian Dillon

RTE listeners slam Helen Mirren for comments saying Dublin was so poor she saw 'kids without shoes'

Academy Award winning actress Helen Mirren recalled the poverty she witnessed in Dublin in the '80s when she was filming a movie in Ireland.

The actress, who stars in the upcoming film The Duke, explained to Oliver Callan on The Ryan Tubridy Show this morning that she had never before witnessed poverty like what she saw when in Dublin.

The actress joined host Oliver to speak about The Duke and how it deals with topics such as poverty and class in Britain.

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