Meet Aoife Raftery, rally race car driver from Craughwell in Co. Galway and “a rising star from Ireland with global ambitions, making waves across Europe and beyond” She’s back in the PNW to race at the Olympus Rally in Shelton WA April 17 - 19. 2026.

Martin McDonagh’s Banshees of Inisherin isn’t likely to inspire the kind of reverence and commercialism inspired by John Ford’s 1952 film The Quiet Man starring Maureen O’Hara and John Wayne. Banshees tourism is not likely to become a thing. One is a Rom Com with great passion. The other is a Black Comedy with grim passion.