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...portrays compulsive gambler Charles Beck, who pretends to be a successful fishing business entrepreneur. He courts Celia Amonte, a Portuguese widow, after she receives some encouragement from her teenage daughter. Amonte (Sofia Milos) reluctantly falls in love with him, at least until she discovers his true occupation. The Dan Ireland film received rave reviews after its first screening as the closing picture at the Seattle International Film Festival. Passionada screens...
...victims. The way to health is through eating good food, getting off your ass and doing some exercise. Simple. We all end up with what we deserve regarding our weight. In this new world of choice without responsibility it is our own fault if we are overweight. Pat McCarthy Ireland...
When a bomb exploded in Omagh, a market town in the heart of Northern Ireland, five years ago this month, Michael McKevitt was puttering around in the garden of his home on the outskirts of Dundalk in the Irish Republic. Within minutes of the blast, he received a phone call informing him that a number of civilians had been killed. That was an understatement. Twenty-nine people died in the Omagh atrocity, the most deadly incident in more than 30 years of the Troubles. This month McKevitt was convicted of directing the Real I.R.A., a republican splinter group, and sentenced...
...They would yell and debate and point and lose their tempers—granted, over referendums in counties I’d never heard of, or over rights to voting procedures which I’d also never heard of. I am slowly learning, in bits and pieces, about Ireland and the rocky relationship of England to the EU—but more than that, parliamentary TV is entertaining. It’s the two-drink minimum version of Congress, as my brother would say. Kind of a barroom brawl, with Tony Blair in the hotseat, a place that anyone...
...Matrix and an angry green giant - all year long, pixel-pushing superheroes have been smashing their way across cinema screens. In Ireland, a quieter kind of crime fighter is pulling in the crowds: Cate Blanchett as Veronica Guerin, the Irish reporter who went head to head with Dublin's drug barons in the mid-'90s and paid for it with her life. Veronica Guerin - the second film about the iconic journalist - follows her as she digs for the source of the city's drug supply. Hardheaded and hungry for a story, Guerin is threatened, shot at and severely beaten before...