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The IFTAs will show off the strength of Irish film and TV production, says Pádraic Killeen

His movie may be drawing in audiences across the world, but just a few years ago the Cork city man behind the creature feature Grabbers didn’t think he would make it in the film industry — and it was all Jonathan Rhys Meyers’ fault.

Grabbers (15A) sounds like a bad Paddy Irishman joke, but Jon Wright’s offbeat tale of a remote Irish island besieged by alien invaders that can only be repulsed by copious amounts of booze is in fact a nifty variation on the B-movie horror flick.