Costume designer tells of time

KELVIN Feeney can vividly remember hiding behind a hedge with the crew, as Mel Gibson and a cast of thousands filmed the famous 'hold, hold, hold' battle scene in Braveheart.

- Film expert ESTHER MCCARTHY

Hollywood had landed in The Curragh in Kildare in one of those perfect Irish summers of sunshine and big skies to shoot one of the biggest blockbusters the country had seen.

Feeney, then a fashion design student, had signed up for some summer work in the film's costume department - little did he know then how much it would change his life and the lives of dozens of other young production staff.