American author Liza Klaussmann speaks to Sue Leonard about the toll the creative process can take on the imagination, particularly when writing fiction about factual characters 

Liza Klaussmann

THE credit crunch has forced a family-run company founded almost a century ago to close four of Munster’s leading toy shops, with the loss up of up 70 jobs.

THE residents of a tiny island off the south-west coast will abandon their boats next week and return to using Ireland’s only cable car.