Bairbre Dowling

After a convivial holiday dinner party, things begin to unravel when a husband and wife address some prickly issues concerning their marriage.

In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.

An American insurance executive, who sees his wife and children die when a plane crashes into their vacation cottage on the Irish coast, uncovers a series of suspicious clues indicating that it was no accident after a pretty financial reporter who resembles his dead wife turns up.

War between two Irish youth gangs consists of removing and retrieving buttons from each other's clothing.

An aspiring artist runs from men as a result of an early life problem that has left her relationship with her father strained. She decides to move into a convent where troubled women receive cheap lodging in exchange for work. She finds a dirty area in the basement where she paints a mural that deals with all of her psychological problems. While some find it gaudy, others such as the mother superior realizes its potential to save the convent which is to be closed. During all this the artist starts a relationship with a man who owns an art supply shop where she shop-lifts her supplies. Written by John Sacksteder