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There was always an element of rock-stardom about the Galway West constituency. Home to some of the biggest hitters in Irish politics over many decades, the election count always attracted a certain amount of national interest. Something for the national hacks to get their teeth into.

There is a good variety of interesting movies out this month — The Lost King particularly stood out to me due to the unusual true story on which it is based.

Padraic Pearse, the self-identified President of the Provisional Government, and Commandant-General of the Army of the Irish Republic was rushed to the gallows, or in this case to the grim stonebreakers yard at Kilmainham jail.