Abusive Language? At Dublin Airport? And It’s News?

Well, yes if it’s actor Jonathan Rhys-Meyers (right). No, if it’s the millions that traipse through those tenuous terminals every month. TToH are teetering on the brink of a Heat-style story here, but we couldn’t help ourselves given the material. In Ireland at the weekend as a guest on Tubridy Tonight to promote his latest film August Rush, the 30-year-old, who is currently playing Henry VIII in the BBC period drama The Tudors, had to be told twice by police to calm down at the BMI gate and desk. The Guards charged him with two counts of violating the Public Order Act and Rhys-Meyers is being forced to pay an undisclosed sum on condition he return to Dublin District Court on December 5^th.

The papers will try and sell the story as ‘Rhys-Meyers falls off the wagon’ scoop or some nonsense like that, but we defy anyone to check in at Dublin Airport and not feel the old red mist descending. In fact, booze should be a prerequisite. We’re with you Jono - all the way, son. The full story can be read here. And here. Here has bit, too. What's the bets that by the end of the week, Jonathan will have been drunk, coked up, taken three people hostage, hijacked a small two-engine plane and has delusional ideas of running his own private country - The Indpendent Republic Of Gurteen. Dublin Airport has driven people to less.

When Jonathan hasn't been losing the ceann in a completely understandable way, he's managed to have three films in the post. First up is The Children Of Huang Shi (with Chow Yun Fat, left) where he plays British journalist George Hogg who helped orphans in ravaged China after the Japanese invasion of 1937. After that is Chuck Russell's (The Mask, The Scorpion King) Mandrake, where Jonathan takes on the role of the titular hero, a magician who uses his powers of illusion for crime. Scheduled for release in 2009 is Danny Glover's Toussaint, a biopic based on the life of Toussaint Louverture (played by Don Cheadle), a Haitian who sparked a rebellion in the 18th century. Probably at Dublin Airport.