Employment law has become synonymous with recognising the overlooked worker. Yet, one of the most pressing employment law crises is borne by those who are renowned for being at the centre of attention: Models.

The recently departed editor of the hugely influential ‘Vanity Fair’, Graydon Carter will be hugely missed as one of a disappearing breed of fearless reportage, says Kyran Fitzgerald

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

The US website published a string of texts that purportedly were exchanged between David Geithner and a former gay porn star turned escort.

Irish Navy vessels the LÉ Eithne and LÉ James Joyce were welcomed into Cork Harbour earlier today; Graham Dwyer’s girlfriend said today that she is pulling back from the relationship; and cannabis could help heal fractured bones. Here’s this evening’s irishexaminer.com round-up.

The US gossip website Gawker has come in for considerable criticism after publishing an article that effectively ’outed’ the Chief Financial Officer of US publishing giant, Conde Nast.

Irish Water is expected to announce that less than half have paid water charges;Cork camogie captain urges others not to hide their feelings; Paul O’Connell has explained that there was no option but to call time on his Ireland career; Alexis Tsipras is facing a revolt in his left-wing party. Here’s this morning’s irishexaminer.com round-up.

The spoils of moving first are now falling to Waterford start-up nearForm. Four years ago it was the first company in Europe to embrace an untried new internet technology called Node.js — now it’s becoming a leading supplier of this technology globally.

Last of trio of thatched houses in Sheen Falls, Kenmare, has five-star hotel accommodation says Tommy Barker.

A Cork hotel has been named one of the world’s best, according to travel magazine Condé Nast Traveller.

Two window cleaners who were stranded 69 storeys above street level when their cradle partially collapsed have been rescued.

The resurrected World Trade Center has opened for business again, 13 years after the 9/11 terror attack — marking an emotional milestone for New Yorkers.

The resurrected World Trade Centre has opened for business again, 13 years after the 9/11 terror attack – marking an emotional milestone for New Yorkers.

Five-star luxury and thatched Irish houses don’t normally go hand in hand – with the latter, you normally take the rough (and sometimes uncombed) with the smooth.

Dublin seems to be getting even friendlier, as one of the world’s most read travel guides voted it the second most welcoming city on the planet.

The most booked models on the Fashion Week circuit had the waist circumference of a seven-year-old child (22 inches). Annmarie O’Connor explores the unwelcome return of the size zero debate.

TO MUCH fanfare, Apple announced recently that Angela Ahrendts is to resign as chief executive of Burberry and join the inner circle in Cupertino, California.

The Lodge at Doonbeg, Co Clare, has been ranked 20th among the world’s top 100 hotels and resorts by Condé Nast Traveler, one of the most respected and trusted names in travel.

Mademoiselle C didn’t get a nationwide cinema release, sadly, but it certainly deserves The September Issue’s cult success.

Kilkenny has been voted Europe's friendliest city.

A provisional liquidator has been appointed to two companies which own and operate the deluxe Waterford Castle Hotel and Golf Club.

Dublin-based food and wine writer Ernie Whalley set up www.forkncork.com as early as 2002 to collate his archive of published content; Donal Skehan started blogging in 2007, and was one of the first Irish food bloggers to publish a cookbook just two years later.

TV’s troubleshooting hotelier brothers returned their exclusive five-star hotel to profit last year.

THEY soothed our senses, purified our pores and massaged the nine-to-five from our system.

The fashion world was left reeling tonight by the death of celebrated British designer Alexander McQueen.

Magazine and book UK printing firm St Ives today said annual profits rose 14% after it weathered “extremely challenging” trading conditions.

The Brits hit Manhattan for a huge party celebrating their style, led by fashion icon Sienna Miller.

DIRECTOR Roman Polanski won £50,000 (€72,000) damages yesterday in a historic libel action which forced him to relive the horrific murder of wife Sharon Tate 36 years ago.

Film director Roman Polanski won £50,000 (€71,875) libel damages today over a claim that he made sexual advances to a Scandinavian woman just after wife Sharon Tate’s brutal murder.

ROMAN POLANSKI’S libel action against the publishers of Vanity Fair magazine neared its conclusion yesterday, with both sides in the case putting final arguments to the jury.

A retired financier told the High Court today how Roman Polanski made a pass at his beautiful blonde girlfriend just weeks after the murder of the film director's actress wife.

A New York editor told the British High Court today of Roman Polanski’s “tasteless and vulgar” romancing of a beautiful Scandinavian model just after his wife’s brutal murder.

ACTRESS Mia Farrow told a British court yesterday of Roman Polanski’s “utter sense of loss” at his wife’s brutal murder.

ADARE Golf Club has been ranked number one golf resort in Ireland and number three after Turnberry and Gleneagles in the Scotland/Ireland category by Conde Nast readership poll in the US.

The former lover of British ex-Home Secretary David Blunkett has given birth to a baby boy, it was reported today.

MARRIED magazine publisher Kimberly Quinn had a three-year-long affair with former British Home Secretary David Blunkett.

A FORMER top Whitehall adviser last night began a probe into British Home Secretary David Blunkett’s dealings with a visa application from the nanny of his former lover, Kimberly Quinn.

A former nanny for Vogue editor Anna Wintour who said she got severe nerve and brain damage from paint thinner used outside the journalist’s house settled her case for €1.7m.

Beyonce, Usher and Rod Stewart will take to the stage in a multidimensional media event that is part performance, part magazine and part museum exhibit, to celebrate the relationship between fashion and music.