Carol Morley talks to Esther McCarthy about her new supernatural thriller, and her teenage years at the legendary Hacienda nightclub

Triskel Christchurch champions art house and leftfield film screenings in Cork, Colette Sheridan reports

ON JANUARY 25, 2006, officials from a north London housing association repossessing a bedsit in Wood Green owing to rent arrears made a grim discovery.

PHYLLIDA Lloyd’s biopic of Margaret Thatcher, The Iron Lady (12A), opens with a doddery old Thatcher (Meryl Streep) making her uncertain way to the corner shop, there to be ignored as she attempts to buy a newspaper.