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Every time, I hear a story involving a defenceless child getting injured I feel I must write about it. I don’t know whether you feel it more tangibly when you have children or whether everyone is feeling the same, but I can’t get the story of little three year old Sefora, who was beaten to death by her mother for wetting the bed, out of my mind.

THE ADVENTURE film Prince of Persia: the Sands of Time (12A), starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, and Ben Kingsley opens tomorrow.

The Corrib Princess is sailing in a new direction, opening each Wednesday evening to pleasure-seekers with a penchant for fine food and wine.

With top stars taking on the roles of lightening smiting Zeus and feared lord of the underworld Hades, Clash of the Titans had all the ingredients to be an action-packed blockbuster but sadly with its haphazard storyline, some cringy scenes, and barely there 3D, it failed to impress.

What do Snow White, Cinderella, and Belle all have in common? Apart from being princesses in three of Disney’s classic fairy tales that have warmed the hearts of generations, this month their stories will be brought to life on stage in the Royal Theatre for six magical shows. Disney Live! Three Classic Fairy Tales is about to touch down in Castlebar for the first time, having taken the globe by storm, Castlebar will soon be enchanted by these tales.

Ideal Gifts, available at Toymaster and Eason, is an exciting new range of personalised products which are ideal for children’s gifts.

The queens of country music are visiting Kilkenny next week and promise to provide a spectacular array of the finest country music.

Week III

Kilkenny’s animation studio, The Cartoon Saloon, has been nominated for an Oscar and an Annie this year for its animation movie The Secret of Kells .

It’s very hard to describe a true Irishman, without acknowledging that we all share a complicated inheritance. At no time was that complication more powerfully amplified than in the crisis of identity leading up to and during War World I. On the one side is the unionist image of Irish Protestants loyally, and exclusively, rallying to the Union Jack, and sealing that union with their blood; while on the other side, the Catholic and nationalist men and women, the people of the 1916 Rising, who represent the ‘true’ Ireland, in sharp contrast to the misguided Irishmen slaughtered in France on the altar of British imperialism.