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It’s the Oscars tonight, which is good news for insomniacs because it’s likely to run through to breakfast. The film tipped to take the top honours – it has 10 nominations – is Mank. If it wins Louis B Mayer, who originally set up the Academy Awards, will be be turning in his grave.  Mayer created and ran MGM, the biggest Hollywood studio ,which led in the blacklisting of the Hollywood 10 in 1947, accused of being communists. And in the 1930s, amazingly as he was a Jew, he collaborated with the Nazis to censor anything critical. He and other studio heads met with the German c...

‘Little Nellie Kelly’: A Great Day for the Irish St. Patrick’s Day, and the whole month of March by extension, is dedicated to celebrating all things Irish. However, many complain that American celebrations of “St. Paddy’s” Day are primarily cheap commercialism, ignoring Ireland’s traditional, genuine culture. Even “Plastic Paddy” celebrations, though, are few in 2021. After claiming St. Patrick’s Day as its first canceled event, the ongoing pandemic is dampening the popular March holiday for the second year. New York City’s famous St. Patrick’s Day parade was canceled...

A new book co-inciding with the centenary of the Drishanebeg Train Ambush, entitled 'Worth the Wait' is available this weekend recalling the daring deeds of Millstreet Volunteers who carried out a planned operation against Crown forces travelling by train between Mallow and Killarney in early 1921. The Drishanebeg Train Ambush Commemoration Project Committee was established to remember the events on February 11 at the Glebe Railway Cutting. PRO Michael Thornton related how the event was deemed one of the more successful engagements undertaken by the Millstreet Battalion during the War of Inde...

Ever since I first saw it decades ago,  Dr Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet, released by Warner Bros. in 1940 (with a screenplay that included John Huston among the talented writers), has struck me as one of the most memorable and noble films in Hollywood's inventory of biopics. The word that defines this film is uplifting. Edward G. Robinson, an unforgettable actor of immense range, is simply magnificent in his portrayal of Ehrlich. As the anonymous author of the retrospective appreciation we publish below correctly notes, he is virtually absorbed by the role: "Robinson is wonderful in Dr Ehrlic...

ingredie ingredients? relaxation drinks are tonight's "sign of the times." p good evening, i'm cynthia mcfadden. hundreds of flights have now been canceled and thousands of passengers stranded, following a harrowing tear in a plane's fuselage which ended with an emergency landing friday night. tonight, airline mechanics are scouring dozens of other planes looking for more cracks. the airlines say they did not know this sort of strain was even a problem. what else don't they know? lisa stark bring us this important investigation. >> reporter: airlines worldwide are beginning emergen...