While most across the country were wearing giant felt hats, pinning lumps of dying foliage to their lapels and waiting for barmen to draw wonky shamrocks in their pints, those cultured folks down in Dingle, County Kerry were celebrating yesterday’s St Patrick’s Day with a considerably more arty affair. The Dingle Film Festival kicked off last night and will run for the next 3 days and will see the small fishing village play host to a plethora of Hollywood royalty. Now into its fifth year the festival is getting a reputation as the ‘film makers film festival’ as it offers unparrallelled access to some of cinema’s hottest actors and directors. In the past the town has welcomed such esteemed celebratries as Cillain Murphy, Saoirse Ronan, Gabrielle Byrne, Stephen Frears, Jim Sheridan and Sir Alan Parker. This year should be no different as once again festival director Maurice Galway has managed to … There’s more →