A high price to pay for revealing documentary on noted poet

THE Nepalese boy looks shocked but he has a very big ice-cream.

He’s had an encounter in Kathmandu with the Irish poet Cathal Ó Searcaigh and it has its rewards.

This was the image I found most disturbing in Neasa Ní Chianáin’s multi-award-winning 2007 film, Fairytale of Kathmandu. It seems to sum up an abuse of power which one boy interviewed for the film puts like this: “He bought myself.”