The Cork Film Festival is in its 60th year. Ahead of its launch next Friday, Marjorie Brennan pays tribute to the country’s longest-running film festival.

The biggest brick manufacturer in Ireland has fallen victim to the slump in house-building and its workforce was told today that all but a handful of them are to be made redundant.

Manufacturing is being shut down at the DuPont factory in Derry for a month, it was announced today.

Workers at a French-owned car components plant facing redundancy in the North maintained a sit-in tonight after turning down a management offer of negotiations if they halted the protest.

Workers facing redundancy at a French-owned car components plant in the North were today maintaining a sit-in amid a row over the size of their pay-off.