Arts & Culture

THE Island Music Club will bring Frankie Gavin and De Dannan to Minogue’s in Tulla on September 24 as part of their Up Close and Personal tour.

NORTH Clare outfit Dog and String Theatre will be appearing at the Absolut Fringe Festival in Dublin this month.

THE third annual Young People’s Art Exhibition gets underway at Scariff Library on Thursday and will continue until October 1.

OVER 30,000 entries are expected for 28th Credit Union Art Competition and Clare entries are now being sought.

Fright NightDIRECTED BY: Craig GillespieSTARRING: Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, David Tennant, Toni Collette, Imogen PootsCERT: 15AFRIGHT Night is the film Disturbia might have been if the creepy guy next door had been a vampire. And that’s no bad thing, even for those of us who despise what Hollywood movies and TV shows have done to the vampire genre over the past 20 years.

THE Corruption Perception Index defines corruption as the misuse of public power for private benefit and it might surprise most to learn that Ireland is not within a country mile of being considered as such. Ranking in order of 10 (very clean) to 0 (highly corrupt) the honour of most corrupt falls to Somalia with 1.1. Denmark is number one with 9.3 with the rest of those pesky transparent Nordic countries and bright sparks New Zealand and Canada not too far behind.

Attack the Block*****Directed by: Joe CornishStarring: John Boyega, Alex Esmail, Franz Drameh, Leeon Jones, Jodie Whittaker, Nick Frost Priest*Directed by: Scott StewartStarring: Paul Bettany, Maggie Q, Cam Gigandet, Karl Urban, Christopher Plummer Attack the Block will shock you. For a film that seems, on the surface, to share more than a bit of common ground with the likes of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz – Edgar Wright even served as producer – it is to films like Die Hard and Assault on Precinct 13 that it really owes a debt.