When Sean O’Hagan returns to Cork this week he hopes to visit the Apple complex in Hollyhill.

Wye Oak’s Andy Stack speaks in a low, reflective murmur. "We sort of burnt ourselves out touring our last album," he says.

No, they're not aerial photographs - they're pen-and-paper drawings.

THE diamond heist in Antwerp where 123 vaults were cleared out was worth £68 million (€100m), Belgian authorities said yesterday, making it one of the biggest robberies in history.