Reefer and the Model

Date: 1987
Director: Joe Commerford
Production Company: Berber films

Stars: Ian McElhinney, Carol Scanlan, Sean Lawlor
Location(s): County Galway

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Storyline:

Irish freedom fighters or terrorists, depending on your point of view, in a small fishing village in Ireland.

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  • Capture 1
  • 18 Apr 2021

No actors but on the wall is written “Slots of Fun Snooker”. Any ideas? ... Click the date for one good one.

Salthill Docks: the amusement arcade replaced with a retail/holiday let block and this was sent in by Paschal Newell who lives five minutes away. (SJ)

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  • 18 Apr 2021

Small street, small town, Eire, Galway? ... We now know: click the date.

Panning right from capture 1, this shows that the houses at the back still stand. With thanks to Paschal again. (SJ)

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  • 28 Sep 2012

It probably said POINT, on the shop front.

This is Seapoint Amusements in Salthill, Galway. And David sent a picture as proof.

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A house

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  • 18 Mar 2026

A port, could it be Galway? ... Yes.

Paschal confirms that Galway Dock's background warehouse is now apartment complex built onto the existing structure. (SJ)

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A port, could it be Galway?

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Country house or club.

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  • 09 Sep 2021

Galway? ... Kilronan on Inishmore one of the Aran islands off the coast of Galway, identified by Paschal.

Matching the quayside: taken by Paschal. (SJ)

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  • 09 Sep 2021

Galway?... Close, Kilronan

With a modern ferry in the foreground. Paschal again. (SJ)

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  • 09 Sep 2021

Galway? ... Paschal suggests Kilronan on Inishmore, Aran Islands.

This shot of Paschal's replaces David's shot of Dock Street, Galway City Docks from September 2012, as it looks like a better match. (SJ)

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A street

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  • 28 Sep 2012

A bank

This is Halla Ainne, the community hall in An Ceathra Rua in the Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking) area of Connemara in Galway. David

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  • 28 Sep 2012

A street

This is pretty much a reverse view of Halla Linne (which is visible in the wing-mirror). David

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A street

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  • 28 Sep 2012

Another street

A private residence dressed as a Garda station on Main Street, An Ceathrl Rua. David

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Another street

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A farm yard?

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A back street

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A village. Paschal says Dock Street

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  • 18 Mar 2026

A house. Dock Street also seen in Ffolkes aka North Sea Hijack (1980)

Paschal took this shot of the new development while treading in the footsteps of North Sea Hijack. (SJ)

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  • 28 Sep 2012

Galway harbour?port

This is looking back at the Galway docks from the Harbour Gate. The building in the middle is still owned by the McDonogh's. David.