The Olympic dream of a record-holding Irish weightlifter lies in the balance following his guilty pleas to firearm and drug offences.

Like the Kauai Coast, which provides Sean McNamara’s film with its stunning backdrop, life ebbs and flows, transforming from dead calm to raging storm at frightening speed.

The most awful of dolls for little girls are surely the dangerously over-sexed Bratz, whose only message to the pre-teenies is that bare mid-riffs are life’s constant must.