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06 Sept 2025

Visiting GAA team get a 007 surprise in Donegal

St Mary's, Faughanvale were playing in Downings on Saturday and met former James Bond star Pierce Brosnan afterwards

Visiting GAA team get a 007 surprise in Donegal

Pierce Brosnan with the St Mary's Faughanvale under-12 team.

A visiting Gaelic football team were shaken but not stirred on Saturday when they bumped into James Bond.

Former Bond star Pierce Brosnan is in Donegal filming a new movie.

The St Mary's, Faughanvale under-12 girls were in Donegal to play Downings in a challenge game.

After the game, they caught up with Brosnan, who is in Donegal to film Four Letters of Love, scenes for which are being shot in the Dunfanaghy area.

The film also stars also stars Helen Bonham Carter, Gabriel James Byrne, Ann Skelly and Fionn O'Shea.

The movie is described as a 'lyrical and deeply romantic Irish story', which is based on Niall Williams' 1997 novel, which was translated into more than 30 languages.

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