Riccardo Dwyer

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Ryan McMullan picks up the call amid a sensory bedlam of car rental stands and bustling passengers in Belfast International Airport. His own flight has just landed; a seemingly swift half-hour jaunt across the Irish sea from Newcastle. It was, such are the splendours of modern aviation, a little delayed. The Portaferry native is still confident he’ll make it home for hurling training, though he’s not overly enthusiastic about the pre-season fitness regime that awaits.

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Thunderbolts* gathers a group of antiheroes from across the franchise to form the latest blockbusting addition to Marvel’s voluminous filmography. Having been snookered into a deadly trap by CIA boss Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), the outcasts are hungry to get their own back. Each grappling with demons and troubled pasts, a question is put forth: will this volatile collection of individuals implode due to their differences, or can they achieve redemption by working together?

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Donald Trump has said he will speak to filmmakers to "make sure they're happy", after he revealed plans to impose 100% tariffs on films made outside of the U.S.The American president said on Sunday that his nation's film industry is dying a "very fast death" due to competition from abroad. "This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat. It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda," he wrote on his own social media platform, Truth Social.

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By 1974, Cat Stevens had already blown through a few of his nine lives. He was emerging as a teenybopper favourite in Swinging '60s London, before a TB diagnosis in 1969 flattened him (his doctor told him he would have died within two weeks, had he not sought treatment). Stevens’ recovery afforded him the space to look inwards and he emerged a profound songwriter, who went on to be one of the period's most commercially successful artists.

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UK counter-terrorism police have said they will investigate KNEECAP after the emergence of videos allegedly showing band members shouting “up Hamas, up Hezbollah” and “The only good Tory is a dead Tory. Kill your local MP.”"On April 22, we were made aware of an online video believed to be from a music event in London in November 2024," reads a statement from the Met Police. “Following this, we were made aware of a further video, believed to be from another music event in London in November 2023.