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‘Face’, Dirk Benedict, of the "A-Team" TV show would like to be Gov. of Montana

A star of 80s television series The A-Team dropped in on Dáil today as politicians debated security at Shannon airport.

(Thanks to the Montana Chamber of Commerce http://www.montanachamber.net for passing this along- Russ)

A star of 80s television series The A-Team dropped in on Dáil today as politicians debated security at Shannon airport.

Dirk Benedict – who played Face in the American action series – watched from the public gallery as Taoiseach Bertie Ahern was quizzed over the use of troops to patrol the airport.

“There has been a lot of serious talk so we thought we would bring in The A-Team to lighten things up,” said Kerry TD Tom McEllistrim, who gave the star a tour of the Dail.

Benedict watched from the public gallery as Mr Ahern spoke about the recent attacks on a US plane by peace protesters.

“I think they should put a mock plane outside Shannon and leave it unprotected to see if the protesters will try to attack it,” Benedict said afterwards.

He said recent acts of vandalism on a US navy plane had given the impression there was lots of anti-war feeling in Ireland, and that this was probably not true.

“My instinct is that an extremely small group of people did the damage to that plane, and they got a lot of attention in the media,” he said.

The TV star, who last night spoke at a debate on the eighties at University College Dublin, visited the Dáil on his way to a tour of the city’s Guinness museum.

“It’s my first time in Ireland,” he added. “The city’s much more cosmopolitan than I thought – I thought it would be much more Irish looking.

“The people are extremely friendly and very attractive.”

Benedict, who starred alongside muscleman BA Baracus (Mr T) and Hannibal (George Peppard) in the adventure series, said he was thinking of going into politics and would like to one day become governor of Montana.

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