They may scare you silly, but Irish horror movies should be taken seriously.

The shorts and documentary strands again produced the main highlights of the Corona Cork Film Festival, says Carl Dixon

Words Alone: Yeats and his Inheritances, RF Foster, Oxford University Press, €22.95

HMV was today frustrated in its efforts for a quick ruling on whether its £96.4m (€142.7m) offer for Ottakar’s damages competition in the market for books.