One Night in Millstreet (2023 film)

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One Night in Millstreet
Directed byAndrew Gallimore
Produced by
  • Morgan Bushe
  • Peter Murnaghan
  • Lydia Monin
Starring
CinematographyStephen J. Hart
Edited byEoin McDonagh
Release date
  • November 11, 2023 (2023-11-11)
(Cork Film Festival)
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]

Contents

Cast

Premise

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]

Tony Quinn

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 ]

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 ]

Director Gallimore addressed this 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." [31]

There are four broadcast-television documentaries about Quinn, two alluding to him leading a Cult. [7] [32] [33] One documentary demonstrates a Quinn follower exhibiting what can be described as the Dunning–Kruger effect and failing to meet expectations. [34]

Reception

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." [35]

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." [36]

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  2. ↑ "One Night in Millstreet". Where To Watch Ireland. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
  3. 1 2 Whitington, Paul (3 April 2024). "'Only Chris Eubank believed that hypnotism nonsense': Steve Collins' famous Millstreet victory revisited" . Irish Independent . Retrieved 3 April 2024. Then, by a stroke of luck, he ran into Tony Quinn — yoga guru, sometime cult leader and self-professed 'mind coach'.
  4. ↑ "One Night in Millstreet – Irish Film Festival London 2023". The Reviews Hub. 15 November 2023. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
  5. ↑ "One Night In Millstreet: Film goes behind the scenes on the famous Collins-Eubank fight". Irish_Examiner. 26 October 2023. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
  6. ↑ "'Celtic Warrior' Steve Collins reflects on the magic of Millstreet". Irish Independent. 5 November 2023.
  7. 1 2 "Belize Oil". Spotlight. 16 October 2012. Event occurs at 00:00:08. BBC One Northern Ireland . Retrieved 17 June 2022. Visionary, Guru, Hypnotist... Life-coach and Saviour to some, Cult leader to others
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  9. 1 2 Kim Bielenberg (7 July 2012). "Tony Quinn: his young lover Eve, his massive fortune and the prayers for cash". Independent.ie. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
  10. ↑ Levine, June (11 August 1974). "The Amazing Irish Guru". Sunday Independent (Ireland) . p. 9.
  11. ↑ William Rankine (26 March 1978). "Cancer Cure Blarney of the Irish Yoga Teacher". News Of The World . p. 9.
  12. ↑ Annie Brown (28 August 2006). "The Cult Figure". Daily Record (Scotland) . Retrieved 8 April 2024.
  13. ↑ "The 'Aura' World Of Tony Quinn". Sunday World . 3 March 1974. p. 8.
  14. ↑ Harry McGee; Richard Oakley (25 February 2001). "Tony Quinn, Medicine Man". Sunday Tribune . pp. 14, 15.
  15. ↑ Cullen, Paul (23 June 2012). "Quinn claims some shareholders blackmailed firm". The Irish Times. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  16. ↑ Paul Cullen (23 June 2012). "Pique oil: the yoga guru and the Caribbean lawsuit". Irish Times. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  17. ↑ Paul Cullen (25 June 2012). "Ousted director says Quinn took company funds". Irish Times. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
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  19. ↑ Paul Cullen (27 June 2012). "Company hired soldiers to protect Quinn, court hears". Irish Times. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
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  23. ↑ SM LIFE VENTURES LLC v Susan Morrice, Tony Quinn, International Natural Energy LLC & Belize Natural Energy LLC( Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court 18 July 2012)("I will grant a declaration that the 2007 Operating Agreement is invalid and that Mr Quinn was never validly appointed to the board of INE. I will also declare that Ms McCaffrey has never been validly suspended from the INE board."), Text .
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  26. ↑ Tim Healy (25 July 2012). "Journalist and charity director must give evidence in Tony Quinn US lawsuit". Irish Independent. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
  27. ↑ "Journalist is not obliged to testify in US case". Irish Times. 19 September 2012. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
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  30. ↑ Cornec v Susan Morrice & Ors( High Court (Ireland) 18 September 2012)("In view of the conclusions I have just reached, it would not seem to me to be necessary or desirable that I should express a view on the question of foreign law presented before me, namely, the construction of Colorado’s press freedom statute and whether Ms. Tallant and Mr. Garde would have been able to avail of it in order to assert a journalistic privilege conferred by statute. In conclusion, therefore, I respectfully decline to give effect to the letters rogatory for the reasons stated in this judgment"), Text .
  31. ↑ O’Doherty, Cara (4 April 2024). "Documentary revisits famous boxing match in Cork, Chris Eubank Vs Steve Collins". Echo Live . Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  32. ↑ 20/20. 2 March 2001. Event occurs at 00:33:18. TV3 (Ireland). You might say 'Am I trying to start a Cult, am I trying to be a leader of something?'
  33. ↑ Dyke, Greg (host); Collins, Steve; Butler, Dr John; McKenna, Paul; Mullan, Harry; Dorking, Paul; Holmes, Paul; Rainey, Howard; Urry, Arthur; Quinn, Tony (10 June 1996). "Boxing Clever". Fair Game. Channel 4.
  34. ↑ "Marcus". True Lives. 23 May 2002. RTÉ One.
  35. ↑ Cashin, Rory (15 October 2023). "One Night in Millstreet has the potential to be Ireland's biggest ever documentary". Joe . Retrieved 3 April 2024.
  36. ↑ Clarke, Donald (April 3, 2024). "One Night in Millstreet review: Entertaining documentary of Collins-Eubank clash a real triumph". The Irish Times . Retrieved 3 April 2024.Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg
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