The Government should not find it too difficult to meet its responsibility in facilitating the return of former Air Corps corporal Lisa Smith and her child from Syria, UN special rapporteur Fionnuala Ní Aoláin has said.

A lawyer who spat at a flight attendant during a racist foul-mouthed tirade after she was refused alcohol on a nine-hour business class flight has been jailed for six months.

When Dessie Scahill puts down his binoculars at the end of the Curragh Derby meeting this afternoon he will surely do so with a sense of real sadness.

Marts across the country could face closure because of rising insurance costs, while the GAA has seen its insurance bill double in five years, said business and community figures.

The “legal extortion” of crippling insurance premiums is threatening the existence of Ireland’s social fabric, including farmers’ marts, festivals and community celebrations, GAA clubs, and even children’s charities.

Seriously ill former members of the Air Corps are facing potentially “catastrophic” consequences for their health as a result of the State’s efforts to fight them ‘tooth and nail’ over the release of information that could aid their treatment, the Dáil heard yesterday.

A group calling for insurance reform has urged the Government to follow the UK in drafting laws to curb compensation amounts.

Racing UK has confirmed it is to take over the coverage of racing in Ireland from At The Races in a five-year deal starting in 2019.

Air passengers across Europe are facing disruption today as air traffic controls go on strike again.

Amid a sea of human misery there were heartwarming moments: The arrival of a new life and migrants singing happy birthday to a 21-year-old sailor who was happy to forego celebrating his milestone day to ensure they were safe.

Eimear Ryan on the power of the podcast – and the eight you have to hear this summer. 

Best known for gorgeous house music under his St Germain moniker, Ludovic Navarre has teamed up with a group of Malian musicians to play in Ireland, writes Ed Power

Shares in Air France-KLM fell the most since 2014, as the surprise exit of chief executive Alexandre de Juniac after just three years in the top job created a power vacuum that puts Europe’s biggest carrier at the mercy of unions implacably opposed to cost-cutting plans.

How do self-employed people manage the no income thing if they stop working for any reason, asks Suzanne Harrington

Cork Airport risks losing its status as Ireland’s second busiest airport following confirmation that more flights are being cut.

A home owner close to the scene of a head-on collision on Monday in Kerry said it was a miracle escape for 11 injured children.

Two of four new patients suspected of being infected with Ebola in Spain have tested negative in a first round of tests, authorities have said.

Two senior pilots flying the doomed Air France plane which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009, killing all on board including three Irish doctors, were asleep until moments before it hit a tropical storm.

Tributes have been paid to a "highly talented" Cork pilot who was tragically killed in a road crash in Co Limerick.

At The Races, along with partner SIS, is to retain the media rights to Irish racing after agreeing terms for a new deal with Horse Racing Ireland and the Association of Irish Racecourses that will cover the period from January 2014 to December 2016.

Well-known traditional accordionist Dan Herlihy will be honoured at the Patrick O’Keeffe Traditional Music Festival in Castleisland, Co Kerry, this weekend.

New Yorkers lined their city’s waterfront today to welcome the space shuttle Enterprise as it sailed up the Hudson River to its new home aboard the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.

Oysterhaven property should have no problem attracting the interest of the super rich, Tommy Barker reports

Investigators will today reveal precise details of how an Air France plane crashed into the Atlantic killing 228 people in 2009.

INVESTIGATORS have pulled data from the black boxes of an Air France jet which crashed in the Atlantic in 2009, boosting efforts to explain what caused the disaster and killed all 228 people on board, including three Irish women.

Two flight recorders that could unravel the cause of an Air France crash almost two years ago have arrived at French investigators’ headquarters in a high security operation.

The cockpit voice recorder of an Air France plane which plunged into the Atlantic in 2009, killing all 228 people on board, has been found and recovered, France’s Accident Investigation Agency said.

A French judge has filed preliminary manslaughter charges against planemaker Airbus over the 2009 crash of an Air France jet.

TOM COOPER is considering his options after Forpadydeplasterer finished second in the Queen Mother Champion Chase at Cheltenham.

A new search in the Atlantic for the wreckage of the Air France Airbus that crashed mysteriously nine months ago was announced today.

AIR traffic controllers and the Irish Aviation Authority meet in the Labour Court this morning to see if they can reach a deal which would avert further strike action at the country’s three main airports.

Malfunctioning equipment on at least a dozen recent flights by US passenger jets made it impossible for pilots to know how fast they were flying, investigators have discovered.

Passengers said they thought they were going to die as they were hurled over seats and slammed against luggage bins when turbulence hit their flight from Brazil to the US.

EUROPEAN air safety regulators told world airlines they will have to replace hundreds of air speed sensors of the type that may have contributed to the Air France Airbus A330 crash in the Atlantic Ocean in June.

THE teenage girl who was plucked from the ocean yesterday, the only survivor of an airliner crash that killed 152 people, was fortunate but not unique.

Brazil has called off the search for more bodies and debris from the Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean but an American officer said the search for the black boxes would likely continue for at least another 16 days.

Six more bodies were recovered from the Atlantic Ocean where an Air France jet crashed, as the race to find the black boxes and gather key evidence from human remains and debris gained urgency.

AER LINGUS is replacing air speed sensors on some of its jets amid mounting speculation that the wrong flying speed in thunderstorm conditions caused the recent loss of an Air France plane with 228 people on board.

Military planes located new debris from Air France Flight 447 while investigators focused on a nightmarish ordeal in which the jetliner broke up over the Atlantic as it flew through a violent storm.

Heavy seas and low cloud today hampered the search for the wreckage of the Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic with 228 people on board.

A FRENCH judge ordered Continental Airlines and five people to stand trial for manslaughter in connection with the 2000 crash of a Concorde jet that killed 113 people, a prosecutor said yesterday.

A French judge has ordered Continental Airlines and five people to stand trial for manslaughter in connection with the 2000 crash of a Concorde jet that killed 113 people.

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates ousted the US Air Force’s top military and civilian leaders today, holding them to account in a historic Pentagon shake-up after nuclear missile warhead fuses were mistakenly shipped to Taiwan.

Efforts are being made to end the air traffic controllers' dispute.

AIR traffic controllers in Dublin last night called off their unofficial industrial action, after staff unrest caused delays to 32 flights on Friday.

DURING his St Patrick’s Day visit to the US in 1994 former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds ordered the government jet to make an unscheduled flight from Nassau to Freeport in the Bahamas, the Mahon Tribunal heard yesterday.

AIR passengers in Ireland could be facing additional airport charges under proposals being considered by the Commission for the Aviation Regulation.