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FOR IAN Rankin, the internally acclaimed and best selling Scottish crime novelist, the last 18 months have seen the closing of one chapter in his writing career and the opening of another.

After reading numerous half-hearted reviews, there was an expectation of disappointment walking into the theatre to see Liam Neeson’s newest flick Taken. Surprisingly, however, the let down never came and after 90 minutes of energy-packed excitement I found myself ready for more.

The campus of Galway University is fortunately situated.

A new film from the Coen brothers is always greeted with deserved anticipation, and their latest, Burn After Reading is no exception, as evidenced by a packed cinema last Friday.

THE PENULTIMATE year of the Bush administration produced several Hollywood films which attempted to be critical of US foreign policy.

A local councillor is appealing for the government to reinstate a polling booth in a Carlow townland, if they can even find it on the map.

I have often been intrigued by the stories of German spies parachuted into Ireland during World War II. It was quite an intriguing time. De Valera was anxious to steer the country in neutral waters, despite serious pressure from Britain and America to at least open our ports to the transatlantic convoys which were being hammered by German U-boats. The IRA and its sympathisers, were pro German to such an extent that Germany believed it could foster a lot of trouble in Britain’s ‘back yard’ by encouraging the IRA to make mischief.

Week II

Athlone Film Club will screen the original Hitchcock masterpiece, The 39 Steps (1935) on Tuesday February 24 at 8pm in the Dean Crowe Theatre.

It’s an absolute sin to find yourself bored during a thriller/action movie especially if it had all the right ingredients but was just blended the wrong way. Apart from a few fairly decent shoot-em-up scenes The International was a long-haul dizzy trip to nowhere.