MISTAKIN IDENTITY

Ex-lag thought actor was former prisoner

- EMMA MCMENAMY

KIN actor Sam Keeley now gets mistaken for an ex-con after playing Eric "Viking" Kinsella in the hit RTE show.

The 30-year-old told how he was approached by a man in a pub who believed he recognized him from jail.

He said: “My work is normally independent films, television shows and my characters have different looks.

“I don't usually get stopped in the street. But since it has been on the television I have been... people have been amazing. It's been a lot of fun walking around and people shouting at me in the street."