Top director steams into town for trip back in time

LOCALS and tourists alike were pinching themselves yesterday morning in Killarney train station as it appeared their journeying had taken them back in time to Civil War Ireland.

A grand old steam engine hooked up to carriages of the Great Southern & Western Railway waited at the platform belching forth clouds of steam.

But just as a couple of elderly Americans, in particular, began wondering if this was their train, they were informed that English director Ken Loach was filming scenes for his film, The Wind That Shakes The Barley.