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What you may need to know:

1. The writer (Mark Boal) and director (Kathryn Bigalow) behind The Hurt Locker (2008) were ready to shoot a film on the 2001 US military siege of Tora Bora – the one where Osama Bin Laden got away – when Bin Laden was eliminated. They swiftly scrapped that one, and made this one instead.

2. James Gandolfini alert @ ’40. Always a good thing.

3. We just realised that it’s 25 YEARS since Kathryn Bigalow made the sublime Near Dark (1987) – the best vampire movie you’ve never seen.

4. Suggested Alternative Tagline: ‘All it took to bring Bin Laden down was one hot redhead…And Andy from Parks And Recreation.’

Release (ireland): January

The film, which is produced by Cork based production company, Epic Productions, is shooting a climatic scene in The Quays Bar in Galway, on Monday, 29th October  and has issued a call for extras.

Given the recent furore over the portrayal of Muhammad on film, one would imagine that filmmakers would steer clear of such controversial topics.

“Well, we’re lucky that Christians have a much better sense of humor about this kind of thing…” says film director, Chris Cullen. ‘Besides, our film is very respectful to the story of Jesus, our intention is not to cause offense, but to encourage people to question; suppose Jesus was born in contemporary Ireland? And suppose he was a musician? Then this is his story!”

 

Call For: Extras Needed for Independent Irish Film ‘Jesus:the Remake’ in Galway (Film ireland)

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Junior finance minister Brian Hayes.

In an interview with the Irish Independent, junior finance minister Brian Hayes said the deal would not be extended in December’s Budget, and buyers must act before the “train will have left the station”.

“”This is an offer of a lifetime, it won’t come again,” …All our futures are based on getting the property market going again. People need to act fast to avail of it.””


First-Time Home Buyers Told To take €5,000 ‘Deal Of A Llifetime’ (Independent.ie)

A framed raffle ticket for the Magdalane Laundry, Gloucester Street [now Sean McDermott Street], Dublin,

The Magdalene asylum in Lower Gloucester Street, within the Mecklenburg Street area, in which there are 13 nuns who keep 90 fallen women at work at the profitable laundry business”.
In 1993 the convent and their laundries had been the subject of much controversy, when they exhumed and cremated 133+ Magdalen women (penitents) and buried them together in a mass grave in Glasnevin Cemetery.
The order of nuns had lost a lot of money on the stock market and sold the land where the Magdalene women were buried. In order for the sale of land to go through, the bodies of the Magdalen women former prostitutes had to be exhumed.
This was done almost in the dead of night very quietly and the Irish media did not cover it as it should have. “The grave diggers had found an extra 75 bodies of Magdalen women with no death certificate and the Irish Government let this pass and gave permission for reburial without death certificates”.

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