Ryanair has posted a sharp rise in costs and a 20% drop in profits after facing some of the worst financial turbulence in its history, but analysts say its low-cost business model isn’t broken.

Ryanair will today announce details of a further 16 flights which are to be cancelled next Tuesday due to a third 24-hour strike by a number of its pilots here.

Strikes by Ryanair's Irish-based pilots are to go ahead this Friday, July 20 and next Tuesday, July 24.

Around 19,000 people have had their holiday plans left in chaos after Irish Ferries cancelled all sailings to France on the WB Yeats vessel this summer.

Ryanair has been accused by the British aviation regulator of failing to respond to its request to discuss how it is treating passengers whose flights have been cancelled.

Ryanair is cancelling 22 flights to and from Dublin in changes to its winter schedule.

Approximately 3,400 procedures are being cancelled in public hospitals every month, according to the latest figures.

Further complications have emerged at Ryanair as some staff at the East Midlands base in England have allegedly been told to take a six-week block of unpaid leave.

Joyce Fegan answers the latest questions on Ryanair.