The crucial role of everything from lip gloss to Twitter, and customer relationship management software in making sales was covered at the Cork Chamber annual conference.

Women’s business organisation Network Ireland has named Natasha Lynch, the managing director of Essential French in Cork, as its self-employed business-woman of the year.

How the internet is changing the world of mass media by affecting how we tell stories and how we receive news will be explored at a one-day digital media conference to be held in Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) tomorrow.

THE memory of a bright student who died suddenly playing hurling two years ago is to be kept alive in a very fitting manner.