Tipperary artist John Keating has described as a “massive career boost” being selected to exhibit his work during the Olympic Games.

The death, at the age of 73, of Portadown-born film critic, Alexander Walker, of the London Evening Standard, has robbed the industry of one of its most influential - and literate - writers ... and our own industry of a staunch supporter.

A painting has vanished from a Marc Chagall exhibition in New York's Jewish Museum.