Elon Musk is wrong about empathy — and Irish film proves it

Maybe instead of bringing shamrocks to the White House this year, our Taoiseach should be sharing our stories as a colonised people, writes Amy-Joyce Hastings

The film 'Christy' is about community — how belonging and love can rehabilitate a young man who might otherwise be lost to violence. 

Last week, I spent four wonderful days at the Chicago Irish Film Festival, during which I was mostly offline.

It’s hard to reconcile the cognitive dissonance in celebrating cinema, community and creativity, then turning your phone back on at the airport and reading that a school full of girls has been bombed. It’s almost impossible to hold those two realities at once.