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); She hopes it encourages young girls to get into the game - world-class Dublin teen the focus of new film
‘Seven Feet Nine and a Quarter Inches’ maps the meteoric rise of Katie Sheldon as she makes waves on the darts scene. By Emma Duffy Sunday 21 Feb 2021, 10:00 AM Feb 21st 2021, 10:00 AM 29,193 Views 6 Comments
Dublin teenager Katie Sheldon is the main subject of a new documentary, Seven Feet Nine and a Quarter Inches.
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Dublin teenager Katie Sheldon is the main subject of a new documentary, Seven Feet Nine and a Quarter Inches.
IFTA-nominated broadcaster, Lorraine Keane, was raised in Rathfarnham, studied broadcasting and journalism in Ballyfermot College and began her media career on AA Roadwatch. She was entertainment news correspondent for TV3 and presenter on Xposé before going freelance in 2009. She is married to musician Peter Devlin and they live with their two teenage daughters in Monkstown,Co Dublin. What’s your earliest memory? My parents’ house parties. I’d sneak out of bed and sit on the top of the stairs listening to the music. If I got caught, my punishment was to entertain the crowd with a song before being marched back up to bed. I loved it.
The Other Lamb.
The Other Lamb is an Irish-Belgian co-production, written by Catherine S. McMullen and helmed by Polish director Małgorzata Szumowska. Selected for the Closing Night Gala of the 64th Cork Film Festival, it stars Raffey Cassidy as Selah, a teenage girl who has grown-up in a repressive, all-female cult referred to as the Flock. The cult members follow a man known as the Shepherd, their Charles Manson-esque messiah played by Michiel Huisman. As Selah reaches the cusp of womanhood, she begins to question her faith and her future role in the Flock.
The cult resides in a remote countryside location, and the depiction of the women’s everyday lives clearly takes inspiration from the world of Margaret Atwood’s