Bosco Hogan: ‘A garda car screeched to a halt and two gardaí tumbled from its interior and pinned me to the wall’

The actor on a recurring nightmare about drowning, bad grammar and his brush with the law at Busáras

Bosco Hogan. Photo: Anthony Woods

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Stage, film and television actor Bosco Hogan was born in Co Louth. He played Dr Ryan in Ballykissangel, Stephen Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, did a one-man show on Yeats and was recently seen in Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel. He lives in Dublin with his wife, Leslie Lalor. What’s your earliest memory?

Probably at four years of age, sitting on a three-legged stool by the fire, holding a clay pipe and pretending to be one of the old men of the town.