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Pierce Brosnan hits back as actor defends his contentious Irish accent in Mobland after critics claimed it was 'all over the place and a huge distraction'

The show finds Brosnan reunited with Dame Helen Mirren , some forty-six years after they both starred in John Mackenzie's iconic British gangster film The Long Good Friday.

The veteran star takes a lead role in director Guy Ritchie's Mobland, an ambitious contemporary crime drama based around the fictional Harrigan family and their influence on London's criminal underworld. Speaking to the latest issue of Radio Times, the actor - who was born in Drogheda, County Louth - insisted his role as family patriarch Conrad Harrigan demanded a broader Irish accent than his own. His role as the "brutish, cunning, charming and dangerous” Conrad is in stark contrast to Brosnan's past endeavours as secret agent James Bond - a character he played across four blockbuster films from 1995 to 2002.

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