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Delaney’s aiming high

By Elaine Sheridan

Pádraic Delaney, who stars opposite Cillian Murphy in The Wind That Shakes The Barley, has been chosen as the Irish Shooting Star for 2007 for next month’s Berlin Film Festival.

The Shooting Star programme recognises the talents of up-and-coming young actors from 21 European countries at the Berlin event every year.

Each actor chosen meets the press and casting directors and receives an award recognising their achievements to date.

A graduate of the Samuel Beckett Centre in Trinity College Dublin, Delaney has starred in the RTÉ Television dramas Legend and Pure Mule and recently completed work on the series The Tudors.

The Berlin Film Festival runs from February 8-18.