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Oscars 2023: Tackling male grief with gallows humour in An Irish Goodbye

 Most would agree that entertainer James Martin is anticipating his impending outing to Hollywood. The star of An Irish Farewell, the short film that has proactively won a Bafta and is currently gunning for an Oscar, has an additional motivation to celebrate. Sunday's service falls on his birthday. "The panther skin coat is emerging!" he says. "I couldn't want anything more than to meet Tom Voyage. His film Top Weapon was fabulous. I couldn't want anything more than to meet Robert De Niro as we share something practically speaking. My name is really Robert James so it would be ideal to meet somebody who has a similar name. We're the two entertainers and we can both be surly on set, so perhaps it's a family thing!" Martin, who has likewise featured in BBC One film Highs and lows and ITV's Marcella, plays Lorcan in Ross White and Tom Berkeley's film around two alienated siblings put together again after their mom's awkward demise. More...

Russian Wagner chief Prigozhin blames ammunition shortage for high deaths

 Russian hired soldier supervisor Yevgeny Prigozhin has posted a picture of his dead soldiers in Ukraine, faulting armed force bosses for their demises and asking conventional Russians to help his gathering. Prigozhin had proactively sent off into an outburst on Tuesday, blaming the safeguard clergyman and boss for staff of attempting to obliterate his Wagner hired fighters by denying them of ammo. Wagnerites have been profoundly associated with the attack of Bakhmut in east Ukraine. The safeguard service denied his cases. "All assertions supposedly made by attack units on shell deficiencies are totally false," it said, without naming either Prigozhin or the Wagner bunch. Depicting the outfitting of hired fighter bunches as really important, the service recorded 1,660 rockets, 10,171 cannons adjusts and mortars and 980 tank adjusts that had been provided between Saturday 18 February and the next Monday. Prigozhin, who established Wagner, for quite a long time had close conne...