Stars Michael Madsen, Vinnie Jones, Patrick Bergin, Finbarr Furey and Gail Fitzpatrick will be at Cork Opera House next Monday for the charity premiere of Strength and Honour, written and directed by Corkonian Mark Mahon. Proceeds from the premiere will benefit Cork's Marymount Hospice.
Strength and Honour is one of six feature films from Irish directors arriving here in the second half of this month. Anthony Byrne's How About You opens today and is reviewed on page 9, followed next Friday by Kirsten Sheridan's August Rush, Paddy Breathnach's Shrooms and Kenneth Branagh's Sleuth. Branagh's opera film The Magic Flute opens on November 30th, as does Strength and Honour.
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