STANDING at the bottom of this main street on a grey Galway day, it’s difficult to believe that nothing on either side of you is in fact real.

AN older people’s organisation has welcomed the highlighting of elder abuse in TV soap Ros na Rún, which comes to a head this week when the teen tormenter of one of the programme’s favourite characters is arrested.

THE closing night of the Cork Film Festival has always been a fitting finale to Ireland’s premier fiesta of film, but this year there was an extra buzz in the air.

The latest shorts commissioned under the OSCAILT short film scheme, jointly funded by Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board and TG4, will premiere at the Cork Film Festival on Saturday.