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Television

The Guarantee left a lot of people furious tonight

“Imagine this really happened?”

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THE GUARANTEE WAS always going to end in tears, but what did audiences make of it when it was screened on TV3 tonight?

It was the television premiere of the 2014 movie, about the night when the Irish government decided to guarantee the banking system.

Here’s what people said about it on Twitter:

Overall, people were mostly complimentary of the film…

But not of the events it depicted:

Overall, the show left people a little furious with the real life events they’d just seen dramatised:

Though some didn’t miss a chance for a joke:

Read: The Guarantee: A movie we know ends in tears, but compellingly captures an important part of Irish history>

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