Pomona Rewind

Last year, at the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis in Killarney, the party's national chairperson Declan Kearney listed a series of gruesome events that took place in Co Kerry during the Irish Civil War. These included the killing of five  Free State soldiers by anti-Treaty guerrillas in a booby trap bomb at Knocknagoshel on March 6, 1923. The following day, Free State forces marched nine anti-Treaty prisoners from Ballymullen barracks in Tralee to the Ballyseedy crossroads, tied them to a landmine, detonated it and machine gunned them. One of the men survived. Nine prisoners were killed a day later in reprisals for Knocknagoshel by pro-Treaty forces in two incidents where they were also tied to landmines - at Countess Bridge near Killarney and at Cahirciveen. Up to that point, 68 Free State soldiers had been killed in the county and 157 wounded and a further 17 would die before the end of the Civil War. A total of 32 anti-Treaty fighters were killed in the county i

With the World Cup fast approaching and the Rio Olympics in 2016, it's seems the world is about to go nuts about Brazil. Not one to miss an opportunity to cash in, Hollywood has duly responded. ' Rio 2 ' files into cinemas this week from 20th Century Fox's computer animation arm, Blue Sky Studios just in time from the Easter holidays. Brazilian Carlos Saldhana's film about exotic birds is the first Blue Sky sequel outside the 'Ice Age' franchise, It follows $484 million smash hit 'Rio' in 2011 featuring Jesse Eisenberg's wimpy, domesticated Spix Macaw named Blu Gunderson who is transported from Minnesota to Rio de Janeiro to mate with Anne Hathaway's feisty Jewel to protect his endangered species. However with the help of Jermaine Clement's nasty cockatoo Nigel, a group of smugglers break into the aviary and steal the rare birds in the hope of making a tidy profit. Blu and Jewel escape but Nigel and the sm