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What you may need to know:

1. It’s a new Irish movie. About boy racer culture. Filmed on the border counties.

2. It’s directed by Johnny Gogan, who made neglected Dub-film classic The Last Bus Home (1997)

3. It’s produced by Still Films, who did cool docs like Seaview (2008), Pyjama Girls (2010) and Build Something Modern (2011).

4. It stars Killian Scott, AKA Tommy from Love/Hate.

5. Broadsheet Prognosis: Channel your inner petrolhead.

Release Date: Friday

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DJ Mark Wayward’s Sounds of Science – an audio mashup tribute to the (*holycrapdidyouseelastnightsepisode*) series of the moment, including (but not limited to) songs taken from the soundtrack.

Cover art by Mark Mitchell

awesomer/nerdcore

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Environment Minister Phil Hogan and Mary Mitchell O Connor TD at the Fine Gael ‘think-in’ in the Heritage Hotel, Co Laois yesterday.

Meanwhile…

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90314064The youthful Labour parliamentary party at the Johnstown Hotel, Co Meath for the Labour Party ‘think-in’ yesterday.

Average age anyone?

(Laura Hutton and  Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

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From the man behind the last year’s call to arms, Irish Cinema’s New Wave: A Manifesto.

Underground Film Festival?

Previously: For Your Consideration

teleToday’s Belfast Telegraph.

3.8% actually.

Things can only get better.

A guy can D:Ream, surely?

There’ll be no united Ireland and the Union is safe – so let’s retire the rhetoric and move on (Malachi O’Doherty, Belfast Telegraph)

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