Shane Connaughton

Connaughton played the disinterested father of a imaginative young woman in Neil Jordan's "The Miracle" (1991). He followed by co-writing the intriguing "The Playboys" (1992), about an unwed woman in the 1950s who refuses to name the father of her child. More recently, Connaughton adapted to the screen his second novel, "The Run of the Country" (1995), about the relationship between a son and his widower father.