Dowager Countess of Grantham played by Maggie Smith said ‘What is a weekend?…’  A classic one liner from Downton Abbey, in all cinemas tonight nationwide.

The hit TV series of a Yorkshire country house with the aristocracy upstairs and the servants in the basement.  It first aired on UTV from 2011 through to 2016 has now been turned into a film. But will it be a success, are you a fan and how accurate is it?

Henry McKean became a butler to find out what was life and meets Professor Terrence Dooley Great Irish Country Houses expert from Maynooth University.

One place in Ireland which still has Butlers is not your house in Enniscorthy in Wexford Ivan but Ballyfin Country House Hotel in Laois.