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Jill Godmilow's "Far from Poland" is accurately, if cynically, titled. This is a documentary about Godmilow's attempts to make a documentary about the Solidarity movement - and if that sounds tortuous, wait until you see the movie. The director was filming another project in Poland at the time of the 1980 strike in the Gdansk shipyards, and later applied for permission to revisit Poland to make a film about Solidarity. Denied permission, she made a movie anyway, and hired American actors to re-enact interviews that were printed in Solidarity publications.

THERE was little sign of a surge in redundancies in the run up to the end of furlough, but a new ‘cost of living crisis’ could push more people in Northern Ireland into the ‘working poor’ status.

THE UK Government’s furlough scheme has succeeded in avoiding mass redundancies across the north during the pandemic, but several thousand jobs remain at risk as the initiative ends today.

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The number of Northern Ireland jobs supported by the furlough scheme rose by 12% over a matter of months, according to official figures. A HMRC report on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) and Self-Employed Income Support Scheme (SEISS) found that 106,200 local positions were being supported by the CJRS at the end of January. At its peak during the summer, 249,600 Northern Ireland jobs were enrolled on the CJRS. Numbers fell to 68,000 in October, before climbing to 94,800 after the introduction of further Covid restrictions, including a full lockdown from December 26. While there wer...