I met Kenny Ireland 56 years ago, around the time his Great Aunt Bill (sic) took him aside and told him: "There's more to life than Paisley, Kenneth." He was to prove her right.
Today, I would be a retired quantity surveyor if Kenny hadn't forced me to follow him to drama school and into the Glasgow Citizens theatre, and I wasn't the only one. There are dozens of writers and actors who were given a hefty shove in the right direction by Kenny.
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