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...birth to three children, all of whom succumb to birth defects. Susan Lynch tears your heart out as she imagines passing a snow day in Boston with the child she does not have; her hotel maid (Vanessa Martinez) dreams of the child she gave up for adoption. One speaks Irish-accented English, the other Spanish. They can't understand each other, but they do communicate on some very basic level. Aside from Marcia Gay Harden, above, covering a hard-used life with near sociopathic behavior, the other characters are less well developed. But they are all well played, and this...
Grainne Walsh will never forget the men who assaulted her. She often sees them walking the streets of Dublin - in their police uniforms. Although the Irish government paid some €50,000 in compensation to the young fashion designer, the officers who assaulted her were never disciplined. Only scant details of other such incidents are ever published. But according to Father Peter McVerry, a Jesuit priest and activist who tracks the cases, in the past five years police have paid out more than €6 million to settle cases involving questionable conduct of the police, or gardaí. And last...
...VALERIE BRESNIHAN, Irish Penal Reform Trust
...three new cases in which fresh injuries were consistent with detainees' tales of beatings while in custody. The committee - an offshoot of the Council of Europe, an intergovernmental organization to protect human rights - highlighted "the number and consistency of the allegations of ill treatment" and called on the Irish authorities "to intensify their efforts to prevent ill-treatment by the police." The allegations contained in the CPT's report ranged from kicks and punches to severe beatings. Some detainees claimed they had been assaulted in a way that avoided leaving visible marks, including baton blows to a telephone directory placed...
PROS Murphy (28 Days Later) is Irish, just like that Colin Farrell fellow--and we hear he's pretty popular...