One Night in Millstreet | |
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Directed by | Andrew Gallimore |
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Cinematography | Stephen J. Hart |
Edited by | Eoin McDonagh |
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Running time | 79 Minutes |
Country | Ireland |
Language | English |
One Night in Millstreet is a 2023 documentary film directed by Andrew Gallimore about the 1995 super-middleweight championship fight between Steve Collins and Chris Eubank at Millstreet, County Cork. [1] [2]
The film recounts how Collins was picked for the fight with Eubank and how Collins worked with cult leader Tony Quinn. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Andrew Pulver of The Guardian wrote of Tony Quinn's appearance in the film "Presented here as a flamboyant eccentric, the film doesn’t enlarge on Quinn’s other activities, which are interesting, to say the least", with a hyperlink to a 2012 Irish Independent article about Quinn titled "Tony Quinn: his young lover Eve, his massive fortune and the prayers for cash". [8] [9]
Paul Whitington commented in the Irish Independent, "With little time to prepare, and his normal coach not available, Collins flew to Las Vegas to train on his own. Then, by a stroke of luck, he ran into Tony Quinn — yoga guru, sometime cult leader and self-professed ‘mind coach’. Though Quinn, as he proudly states in the documentary, knew nothing about boxing, he persuaded Collins that victory and defeat, pain and fatigue, were all in the mind." [3]
It has been reported that followers of Quinn believe him to be the reincarnation of Jesus, able to cure cancer, can "cast out evil spirits", and that he can walk on water. [10] [11] [12] [13] [9] [ excessive citations ]
The film attributes the title of "Dr." to Quinn, however Quinn's doctorate of Clinical Hypnotherapy was conferred by the unaccredited American Institute of Hypnotherapy (AIH), based in Santa Ana, California, which was offered as a distance-learning correspondence programme at the cost of $3,300. [14]
Quinn confirmed he was not awarded a PhD in the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (Commercial Division) in 2012 where the court judged Quinn was invalidly appointed a director of International Natural Energy after a follower of Quinn's attempted to deceive the court with a forged document purporting to be signed by all founders. [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [ excessive citations ]
It was reported in 2012 that Quinn, and follower Susan Morrice, had paid €1.3 million for security company Henrima to create intelligence files on Sunday World journalist Nicola Tallant, RTÉ's Joe Duffy and Dialogue Ireland director and Cult expert Mike Garde.
Details of the intelligence dossiers were revealed when the Irish High Court ruled against attempts to force Tallant and Garde to appear in depositions in Colorado, in effect changing the Irish constitution. The judgement stated, had they appeared in deposition Tallant and Garde would likely be forced to reveal sources behind stories in the press about Quinn. [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [ excessive citations ]
Sarah Gilhooly, who describes herself as "working alongside Tony", is thanked in the credits of the film. [31]
Director Gallimore addressed criticism the film was a whitewash in an interview with Echo Live, "We couldn’t go into all the issues because this is about Millstreet and the fight. There are other documentaries to be made about him; this was not the time." [32]
There are four broadcast-television documentaries about Quinn, two alluding to him leading a Cult. [7] [33] [34] One documentary demonstrates a Quinn follower exhibiting what can be described as the Dunning–Kruger effect and failing to meet expectations. [35]
Dialogue Ireland, a charitable trust promoting awareness and understanding of religious issues and cultism in Ireland, announced in July 2023 that a documentary-maker was researching Quinn and his Educo Cult. [36]
Andrew Pulver of The Guardian opined "Venue operator Noel C Duggan is presented, hilariously, as a backwoods chancer who bamboozled hard-nosed boxing insiders such as Barry Hearn into staging the fight." [8]
Rory Cashin of Joe commented "The preening, self-regarding, and mentally formidable Super Middleweight Champion, Chris Eubank, and the hungry challenger from Cabra, Steve Collins." [37]
Donald Clarke of The Irish Times reviewed and stated "Nobody mentions the eventual result. Right until the triumphant hand is raised both men seem plausible winners." [38]
Christopher Livingstone Eubank is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 1998. He held the World Boxing Organization (WBO) middleweight and super-middleweight titles between 1990 and 1995, and is ranked by BoxRec as the third best British super-middleweight boxer of all time.
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The Green Glens Arena is a public entertainment location in Millstreet, in County Cork, Ireland. There is a 20 hectares outdoor estate for equestrian sporting events and an indoor arena measuring 80 metres by 40 metres.
The Miss Universe Ireland is a national beauty pageant that has selected Ireland's representative to the Miss Universe pageant since 2002.
Cullen is a small village and civil parish in County Cork, Ireland, situated north west of Millstreet town, in the barony of Duhallow. It is about four miles east of the Kerry border and Rathmore village. St. Laitiaran's Well can be found in the area. Cullen is within the Dáil constituency of Cork North-West.
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Dialogue Ireland is an independent trust, established in 1992, which works to promote awareness and understanding of religious issues and cultism in Ireland. It is an ecumenical body which counters the rise in a number of new religions and cults in Ireland. It grew out of the Catholic-run Cult Awareness Centre becoming an ecumenical body of the mainline Christian churches. Among those who worked in the field in its early years were, Fr. Martin Tierney, a priest of the Archdiocese of Dublin, who served as Chairperson of the group; Mike Garde ; and Dominican priest Fr. Louis Hughes OP.
Mike Garde is a South African born theologian and an expert on cults. He is the director of Dialogue Ireland. Garde is a Mennonite and is a member of Grosvenor Baptist Church in Rathmines. In 1978, he was supported by the London Mennonist Mission, in establishing the Irish Mennonist Mission in Dublin. He was the first non-Catholic to study for the Bachelor of Divinity at St Patrick's College, Maynooth in 1975. He also gained an H.Dip in Education. Prior to attending Maynooth he studied for a Diploma in Theology at the Irish Baptist College in Belfast and University College London. He received an M.A. in Theology in 2006 from the Milltown Institute in Dublin.
Then, by a stroke of luck, he ran into Tony Quinn — yoga guru, sometime cult leader and self-professed 'mind coach'.
Visionary, Guru, Hypnotist... Life-coach and Saviour to some, Cult leader to others
You might say 'Am I trying to start a Cult, am I trying to be a leader of something?'