“All of the judges gravitated towards it because it is such a wonderful moody landscape photograph.”

Aileen Lee sits down with artist Valerie Walsh Jolley.

A DANISH company which runs the country’s only hearing-aid manufacturing firm is to close its Cork-based operation within weeks with the loss of 180 jobs.

A Corkman who was left in a coma after an attack died from a cardiac arrest nine months later "due to head injuries caused by blunt force trauma", the State Pathologist told a murder trial today.

A 21-year old man co-accused of beating a man, who later died, into a coma admitted to gardaí that himself and his friend "just beat him to death".