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EVERY THURSDAY EVENING, we bring you three trailers for films that are out this weekend.
The films might be on streaming services, or on television.
But before we get to the trailers this week, we have something very exciting for you – the chance for one lucky reader to win tickets to watch the opening and closing gala films at the Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival. The festival runs from 3 – 14 March online and you can find the full programme here.
The opening gala this year is Supernova, starring Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci as a couple who have been together for two decades, but who find themselves having to deal with early-onset dementia.
The closing gala for 2021 is Deadly Cuts, directed by Rachel Carey. The film is about a hair salon on the northside of Dublin where the staff end up being accidental vigilantes.
To be in with a chance of winning a ticket to view both of these, tell us:
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I Care A Lot
Rosamund Pike stars as a woman who runs a racket that involves becoming the legal guardian for elderly wards – whose assets she takes. But then her latest ward ends up having some dodgy secrets of her own…
The Meg
Look, if now isn’t the right time to watch a film where Jason Statham faces off against a gigantic shark, when IS the right time?
The Champ
Oh you want to bawl your eyes out, do ya? Then watch this 1979 melodrama which stars Jon Voight as Billy Flynn, a former boxer who takes part in a fight to support his son and win back his ex-wife (Faye Dunaway). A remake of the 1931 film.
Which one would you watch first?
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The nurses, doctors, teachers, gardai and most public servants in the frontline from my experience dealing with them are very good and do their jobs well and inflation has damaged the power of take home pay so increase needed alright whether we like it or not
@Peter Murray:
Passschal the sneaky snake knows all about undue promotions and jobs for the boys etc etc!!
What we really should be happening is that the country should be discussing how much ministers should getting paid in my eyes they should get the average industrial wage of €33,800 and then to prove what they can actually do to betterthe lives of the citizens of Ireland before to get any expenses or bonuses enough is enough of taxpayers money going to waste I’m not getting value for money
@Bren: Brilliant idea. I’m sure 33.8k should attract the best of the best in to politics.
@Fr. Fintan Stack: By the best do you mean TDs like Niall Collins who has continually refused to appear before the ethics Committee concerning his travel expenses. Seems his vouched and unvouched expenses were not enough for him…
@Donal Desmond: No I’m talking about future politicians. I’m not here to defend FFG politicians. I don’t vote for the above mentioned. But as bad as it is now, who are you going to attract with 33.8K?
@Fr. Fintan Stack: You mean all the teachers? That old money shtick is a fallacy. It’s protectionism, of the institutions where hypocrisy began.
@Bren: Why would anyone take on the responsibility involved in being a minister for the average industrial wage?
@Fr. Fintan Stack: Really, do you think the current lot are intelligent or very skilled. It’s the public servants who run this country. Our politicians are just figure heads, who generally inherit their positions. Greed is their main attribute!
@Pat the Baker: Why not, unless they’re not in politics to help those less fortunate and offer their limited abilities. Democracy is about making society better for all.
Another round of pay rises coming
Great stuff
Even as our public services continue to decline in quality with nobody ever held accountable
Just send the bill – as ever – to Joe and Mary Taxpayer
@Gerry Kelly: Unions should be banned in all state jobs.
Having a job for life is a privilege most people will never enjoy.
Unions are needed in the private sector only – they are abused by state employees to squeeze more than their fair share from private sector workers who will never enjoy the same privileges.
@Pat the Baker: It is exactly in the public sector that we need the unions. If a teacher is unhappy with their pay, they can’t go to the principal and ask for a rise, like a private sector employee.
@Peter Murray:
WWG1WGA! ;~)
@Pat the Baker: have you not been reading the news recently of how many of the state/semi states are?!?? Strike after strike. IR issue after IR issue. Staff retention issues, staff recruitment issues, and low morale all causing unfit services. Conditions driven into the ground by poor management and DPER since the crash. The public sector need unions just as much as anyone else and they need to sort the mess the govt has made of everything….. FYI, Public sector staff pay taxes too and you might want to brush up on their “privileges”. You must be thinking about legacy employment contracts…..Thanks for your input though Pat.
@Gerry Kelly: Public servants pay proportionally more of their income back to the state than private sector workers, but nobody mentions the proportion of income tax attributable to the Public Service when they talk figures, almost like there’s an agenda. I agree with other opinions stated here that politician’s wages need to be reduced, including those retired politicians claiming multiple pensions
@James K.: we need more competent politicians and they need proper pay. The public sector don’t pay tax, that’s a mad idea, every penny they get is from real tax payers. Sorry, that’s just pure logic.
“..to ensure that the value of their pay is not eroded by inflation.” I’m pro unions most of the time, but what planet is this guy living on? The value of everything is eroded by inflation. Who do they expect to pick up the tab?
@Louis Jacob: Yes, so salaries need to be increased accordingly to compensate. It’s a fair argument in my book.
@SYaxJ2Ts: That’s whats supposed to happen?
@SYaxJ2Ts: Ok so, increase the state old age pension and reduce the age from 66 to 60. Get all public servants to work the same year’s as the private sector! Equality when it suits!!
There is an obvious issue with recruiting new Gardaí, Nurses, Doctors and Teachers, the revision of wage scales and pensions for new tecruits has stopped many from applying and caused others to leave on realising the impact of those changes on their income both short and longer term. This was a clear and obvious error by government. On top of that there should be separate talks for emergency staff, Firemen, Ambulance crews, Nurses, Doctors and Gardaí deserve to negotiate separately from clerical staff who never have to face the public or deal with injured or dead people and their relatives
@James K.: Clerical staff never have to face the public? Who is your first point of contact when you go in to a hospital or clinic? Who do people attack when they can’t get an appointment for another 12 months?
@Fr. Fintan Stack: Still not the same as attending a serious car crash, or one involving death, attending a fire where people are injured, attending to someone with mental health problems, dealing with violent and aggressive drunks, attending sudden deaths including those self inflicted, dealing with victims of assault or worse, calling to homes where domestic abuse is happening etc etc
@James K.: they have seperate unions who negotiate seperately … with the exception of AGS .. they still can’t have one .. and there are plenty of gards who never have to face the public much like there are plenty of clerical staff that do … How do you sererate one from the other ???
@James K.: The reason I picked up on this post is because many moons ago my wife worked as a clerical officer in the A&E of one of the large Dublin hospitals.
The amount of abuse she and others on the opposite shifts got was frightening. Abuse from patients with injuries caused by drugs and alcohol wanting to be seen immediately, that was every night. Dealing with families who come in to A&E after a bad accident. Even if it means getting them a cup of tea and sitting with them. And yes, dealing with victims of assault, mental health, etc. But no, not dealing with them medically, but most times she was the first point of contact. And many a night/morning she came home very upset.
That’s a lovely happy picture of Pascal…. probably just heard about an incoming pay rise.
So if they want pay increases that wont be eroded by inflation, does that mean when inflation drops they will happily take a pay cut? Will they f… If you dont like the pay go to the private sector, they got a pay rise 2 years ago, with most recent part of the pay rise given a month ago, and now they want even more
@he didnt take the 120k because he already got it s: I think you don’t understand what inflation is or how it works. If you mean a recession where growth is negative then yes the last time we had one the whole public sector took a paycut though I don’t remember a decrease in the cost of living
@he didnt take the 120k because he already got it s: echoing David Dunnes reply and also to say, how much of an increase did they get? Inflation is at around 20% since the start of 2021
Fantastic idea. Contrary to basic economics. In rampant inflation the aim is to extract money supply from the wider economy. Yet these clowns want to increase money supply via wage increases.
@Niall English: According to the basic greedanomics of some employers there’s never a good time for pay increases
Take the crumbs from my table peasants
Let them stay at home and pretend they are working. What they’ll save on not travelling can be their pay increase.
@Pato:
Is that you Sir Jacob Rees Vatnik old boy!? *monacle emoji* ;~]
Great stuff will get a nice rise in my pension , they deserve about 15% across the board for all our over worked , under paid stressed out public servants , who dont know where the next cent is coming from .
link the pension with sector rises
Joe and Mary Taxpayer work as public / civil servants.
Aaaaah, he is a great fella so he is.
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