In day two of our look at some of the artists of the Blackwater Valley Makers, Susan O’Shea chats with photographers and ceramicists, graphic designers and woodturners, and finds a scene and a place revitalised over the past year.

Union chiefs hit out at employment laws today after an electronics factory in the North announced that up to 300 jobs were to be axed.

An electronics firm is to lay off 133 workers at its plant in Blanchardstown in Dublin.

West Dublin is to lose 130 jobs following the merger of the high tech companies Sanmina and SCI.