Ursula Burke, Paul Hallahan and Cecelia Moore will share €30,000 prize

Also in the news were diesel cars, Seán Dunne, Irish banks and artists’ tax relief

Culture review 2016: It was a year of madness, brilliant takes on 1916 and continuing State starvation

The Canadian artist sets his sights on Kilkenny; and Damien Flood is like a Miró in Dún Laoghaire

Widowed father-of-two initially told gardaí he was moving drugs to pay debt of €40,000