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Wars bring out the worst and the best in people. We read recently how it can bring out the best in the most dark of situations like what happened to Dr Aidan MacCarthy during World War II, when in the RAF in Singapore he, along with thousands of others, was captured and held as a Prisoner of War for four years in Japanese camps. 

The stories of Irishmen who served in WWII are deeply moving says Geoffrey Roberts

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THERE’S a charming quality to the opening scenes of Fantastic Four (12A), as child inventor Reed Richards (Miles Teller) bonds with bullied kid Ben Grimm (Jamie Bell) as they attempt to build a machine capable of teleportation. 

Niki MacCarthy’s quest to discover why her father returned from war with a Japanese sword uncovered a story so incredible, it’s been made into a film, writes John Meagher.

It’s a needle-in-a-haystack documentary — with a twist — about a Corkman who survived the Nagasaki nuclear blast and ended up with a Samurai sword given to him by a Japanese officer.

Highlights include Who’s Buying Ireland? and a discussion of pre-nups on Ear To The Ground

A family’s quest to solve a Second World War mystery of why a Japanese officer presented a samurai word to an Irish doctor after a nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki could be solved in the next few days.