It could have turned out very badly, although I thought the script was a wonderful, pretty near visionary piece of writing, and I thought Spike did a fantastic job directing it.

“You have to be pretty near perfect to get the job done,” MacKinnon said.

“It should correct itself here in the pretty near future.”

So the Kestons, who manage a large real estate company that includes an investment component, quickly changed their focus to Seattle and got “pretty near the finish line” before the real estate market bottomed out, sinking the deal.

The temporary halting of P&O's sailings at Larne Port will affect supplies coming into NI as other ferry operators are "pretty near full", Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has said.