Cork teenager Jessie Griffin is launching a new comic-book series about her own life. She tells Donal O’Keeffe about her work as a comic artist, living with Asperger’s, and her life-changing time with the Cork Life Centre

Elaine Howley is a singer with the Altered Hours, one of the acts playing weekend festival It Takes A Village (April 13-15) in Trabolgan, Co Cork. She is from Tipperary Town, writes Des O’Driscoll