A new film festival is to be held in Cork next October — a month before Cork Film Festival.

Two key figures who were made redundant by the Cork Film Festival are planning to screen a rival “fan-funded” film event this year.

Mick Hannigan and Úna Feely tell Colette Sheridan of their Cork Film Festival highlights.

As a long-term patron of Cork Film Festival, I was baffled to read of the dismissal of director Mick Hannigan and programmer Una Feely.

The decision to lay off key Cork Film Festival staff has sparked ire, writes Dan Buckley

The Lord Mayor of Cork Cllr John Buttimer has called for an urgent meeting between City Hall’s arts committee and the board of Cork Film Festival in the wake of the decision to make chief executive Mick Hannigan and programmer Una Feely redundant.

The Board of Cork Film Festival has announced staff changes, after an independent strategic review of its operations.

Mick Hannigan, the CEO and man in charge of the Cork Film Festival for almost 30 years, has been ousted and made redundant by the board of the festival.

Anybody who takes on the running of the Cork Film Festival has to do it for madness or love — or perhaps a bit of both.