I was told that the cinema in Waterford was closed down for a while last year when someone was bitten by a rat. On the plus side seemingly planning permission has been granted for two new cimenas in Waterford - one behind the Uluru and one somewhere in town. Don't know when/if they plan to build them though, I saw a flier for "Waterford Film For All today" - http://www.waterfordfilmforall.com/season.html. Not quite the Oscars list but probably quite worthy at any rate.
Useful comparison with bloglines - only scrolled messages marked as read would really help. I think I'll stick with bloglines if only because google can already analyse too much of my interaction with the net. I already use google for mail, calendar, search, etc. Likewise I'll stick with del.icio.us and flickr [Yahoo! doesn't know me as well yet;)].