David Hockney painting is expected to fetch $80m and set the record for a living artist.

ONE OF DAVID Hockney’s famous “pool paintings” is coming to auction and is expected to sell in the million range, easily breaking the record for a work by a living artist sold at auction. The British artist’s Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), to be auctioned at Christie’s in November, is considered one of his premier works.

Woman, sacked for refusing to allow customer return Christmas lights, awarded €21,000.

A SHOP ASSISTANT, who refused to engage with a customer returning some Christmas lights and who threatened to call the gardaí, has been awarded €20,000 at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) after losing her job.

Live tapeworm 'still swimming' as it was pulled out of man's BRAIN.

A man with unexplained epilepsy was found to have a live 10cm tapeworm lodged in his brain that was 'still swimming'.The worm was discovered and removed by baffled doctors after the 26-year-old Chinese man suddenly developed epilepsy.

DANGEROUS HURRICANE FLORENCE

DANGEROUS HURRICANE FLORENCE is edging closer to delivering a powerful blow to the east coast of the United States, with forecasters warning of life-threatening rainfall and flooding even as it weakened to a Category 2 storm.

Motorist banned from driving and fined for parking in disabled bay.

A JUDGE HAS banned a motorist from driving for six months after the driver’s car was found parked in a disabled parking space in Ennis. At Ennis District Court, Judge Patrick Durcan said that Andrew Ryan of Bridge Court, Tulla Rd, Ennis “should be ashamed of himself” after his car was found parked in a disabled parking spot at the Parnell Street car park in Ennis on 5 May this year.