Almost every aspect of the First World War and its impact on Ireland will be discussed at a free public conference at University College Cork next week.

The artist Anthony Haughey has taken an interesting tack to commemorate the centenary of the 1913 Dublin Lockout, as part of a strand at this year’s Cork Film Festival. He’s put together a programme of films that celebrate workers’ rights from around the world.

THE outcome of a High Court challenge to the constitutionality of laws under which a statutory minimum wage and working conditions were fixed for 25,000 hotel workers outside Dublin and Cork will have significant implications for 250,000 workers whose wages and conditions are fixed under the same laws.