Breaking Point

Micky Maguire: [Jamie Maguire has just beaten up his sister Mandy's boyfriend Joe outside the Jockey after he discovered the bruises on Mandy's body from where Joe had been repeatedly assaulting her. Jamie and the rest of the Maguire family are holding a pow-wow in the Jockey about what to do next] Well, what if he's dead?

Paddy Maguire: Might be the best thing, can't squeal then

Jamie Maguire: Well, if it comes to manslaughter, someone will talk

Micky Maguire: He'll be nearly forty before he gets out

Mimi Maguire: Over my dead body is that lad going back inside. Go and get yourself cleaned up, go on.

[Jamie leaves the room and Mimi gathers the others round]

Mimi Maguire: One of us will take the rap

Shane Maguire: You confess? Go on remand?

Mimi Maguire: And it can't be your father

Shane Maguire: Why not?

[Kelly sniggers and Paddy glares at her]

Micky Maguire: Well, I've no previous, maybe I should confess

Kelly Ball: And it can't be Shane

Kelly Ball: [Mimi glares at Kelly] He's just got over a bleedin' stroke. Why should he go down for eight years, just because Mandy's got shit taste in men?

Mimi Maguire: Are you going to let Anytime Annie, do your talking for you?

Shane Maguire: Look, if I thought it would go with a Section 20, I might think about it

Micky Maguire: Well, like I said, I don't mind

Mimi Maguire: Stop your bleating, Mickey. A doe-eyed waif like you would be passed from man to man like dysentery in a death camp. Is that what you want?

Mimi Maguire: [Everyone looks at each other for a few seconds in silence, until Mimi breaks the silence] So, I did it, then? I took him out?

Paddy Maguire: You selfish fucking prick of a fuck

[Paddy stands up to thump Shane, but Kelly moves in blocking Paddy's way]

Mimi Maguire: There's no time for that, Paddy, they're all my babies. A Mam's got to do what a Mam's go to do.