Arts & Culture

SHANNON Gospel Choir will perform at Limerick’s Lime Tree Theatre with very special guest Paddy Casey on Saturday, October 13 at 8pm.

CLARE County Library, in association with the Clare Arts Office, has announced the launch of its online Music of Clare project on the library’s website at www.clarelibrary.ie.

CRATLOE-based painter and photographer Grace O’Sullivan recently opened her latest exhibition of paintings, The Mark of Eden, at the Red Couch Gallery in the Courthouse, Ennistymon.

SIXMILEBRIDGE Folk Club will host an eclectic group of musicians to launch their winter season at the Courthouse next week.

THE Island Music Club presents Chris Newman and Máire Ní Chathasaigh at the backroom in Minogue’s Bar in Tulla on Saturday, October 13.

Looper DIRECTED BY: Rian Johnson STARRING: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Jeff Daniels CERT: 15AIn the 2070s, when time travel is invented, the government will immediately make it illegal. As typically happens when the state decides something is prohibited, the mob will move in and corner the market. History, as ever, laughing it up on the roundabout.

Homeland returned for a second series on RTÉ Two on Tuesday night to explosive fanfare. Actually, the explosions were generally aimed in the direction of Iran as Israel had bombed the country’s nuclear reactors. The fallout, however, was eerily reminiscent, considering the current anti-Israel and anti-Western sentiment in the Middle East.

Cabin in the Woods*****Directed by: Drew GoddardStarring: Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison,Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams, RichardJenkins, Bradley Whitford A group of college students  – all looking like they’re fresh from a GAP commercial, except the obligatory goofy stoner guy – head into the American wilderness to spend a weekend of beer guzzling and age-appropriate hijinx in a remote holiday cabin. Creepiness ensues and people end up dead.