From hoteliers to tour guides, Esther McCarthy meets our tourism workers as they ready themselves for the busiest time of year.

A video project entitled “Rescue 116: The people behind the recovery” has earned Shane McNamara, a MA in Journalism student at the University of Limerick, top prize in the inaugural Irish Examiner / University of Limerick video journalism competition.

SURPRISE, surprise, St Patrick’s Day turned into an alcohol-fuelled binge of violence. Now there’s a shock. Didn’t see that coming.