Megan brings movie magic to DIT film festival
DUBLIN Institute of Technology film student Megan Laney, from New Ross, helped in the organising of The DIT Best in Irish Film, Film Festival.
Megan, who is studying a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Film & Broadcasting, helped to coordinate a two week film festival which ran from March 13 to March 24 and involved many guest talks and questions and answers sessions from the some of the great names in the Irish film industry, giving the students of DIT and Dublin the opportunity to meet and learn from Irish film industry professionals.
The festival consisted of screening many recent Irish films, followed by guest speakers and questions and answers sessions with the filmmakers and actors.
The festival hosted screenings of the best of Irish film, such as last year’s big-hit releases such as ‘ The Young Offenders’ and ‘Queen of Ireland’, along with talks from guest speakers such as Peter Foott, Rory O’Neill (Aka Panti Bliss), DIT graduate and editor Úna Ní Dhonghaile and John Butler of Hansome Devil), along with many more names from the Irish film industry.
The finale in the festival was the screening of ‘Sing Street’.
Hanna McGlynn, chairperson of the DIT Film Society (and Film Festival Coordinator) said: ‘We are excited to wish Megan luck in the film industry to follow in the footsteps of these great filmmakers who attended the DIT Film Festival.’ TRIBUTEs to long-serving Judge Donnchadh O’Buchalla who died at the weekend were led by his colleague Gerard Haughton at the District Court sitting in Wexford yesterday (Monday).
Judge Haughton noted that his predecessor served the Wexford district from 1992 until his retirement in 2011.
He recalled the deceased as a genial man with a great knowledge of the law, which was blended with compassion for those who appeared before him.
He was also patient, carrying out his duties exceptionally well.
Judge O Buachalla, who lived in Stillorgan, bore the illness which dogged his later years with great fortitude, said Judge Haughton.
Sergeant Victor Isdell joined in expressing sympathy to the family of a man who was both fair and well respected and solicitor Caitriona Walsh offered condolences to someone she described as a gentleman, compassionate, considerate and polite, but who was also able to make the difficult decisions which went with his job.
Judge O’Buachalla, who retired after nearly two decades as a judge in County Wexford, qualified as a solicitor in 1968 and was appointed a judge of the District Court in 1989, sitting first for a number of years in Dublin.
He retired in September 2011, several months after he was involved in a collision with a jeep and trailer on the Gorey to Wexford road, as he made his way to Wexford town for the New Ross District Court sitting. He was not seriously injured, but was understood to be very shaken followingt the crash.
He attended the scheduled sitting of the court that day but subsequent Wexford courts were taken by visiting judges. THe second annual Islam Integrates conference takes place in the Edmund Rice Centre, Barrack Street, Waterford city on Saturday, April 29, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The conference features a talk called Integration and Islam and Educating Women in Islam, while there will be an emphasis on mental health also.
Tickets cost €15 per person and the event is for women only. Refreshments and lunch will be served. The cost of entry for one child is €5, €8 for two children and €12 for three or more children.
For tickets contact Sis. Anne Quinlan Zoghbi on 087 3955643. GARDAÍ and firemen attended the scene of a jeep on fire at Horetown on Thursday.
The fire was extinguished and the vehicle removed from the scene.