Bombardier is seeking investors for its aerospace businesses and considering a sale of some operations, according to sources, as a turnaround plan at the Canadian aircraft-maker faces pressure from potentially crippling US tariffs on its marquee jetliner.

Bombardier is betting on fast-growing markets like India to boost sales of its Q400 and CSeries narrow-body planes at a time when the Canadian planemaker faces a trade row over sales to the US that could affect thousands of jobs in Belfast.

The Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) will act as its own ticket agent in the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, the board has said.

The OCI is on a journey to try and re-establish its credibility after the Rio tickets scandal, writes Daniel McConnell.

The absence of details around payments to the Olympic Council of Ireland for tickets to the Games bought by agents is expected to be investigated further in the wake of the Rio ticket touting inquiry.

Former Irish Olympics president Pat Hickey is at the centre of fresh scandal after it emerged he signed secret ticket deals with ‘banned’ agent THG last year.

Standing in the lobby of a hotel in Rio last year, just days before his arrest by Brazilian police, Pat Hickey did an interview with RTÉ news.

Families were treated as irritants rather than members of the wider Olympic family, writes Michael Clifford.

Matt Chapman emerged with a good deal of credit from the television coverage of the Prix de I’Arc de Triomphe at Chantilly last Sunday.

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Pro10 Sports Management, the company appointed as Ireland’s Authorised Ticket Reseller (ATR) and whose directors are the subject of arrest warrants, has insisted once again that its process for selling tickets was “fully within ATR guidelines”.

Sports Minister Shane Ross is “uneasy” about the independence of an investigation into allegations of Olympic ticket touting.

Newcastle-based businessman Graham Wylie, and his wife Andrea, are living the dream and surely grateful for the day they decided to have horses in training with Willie Mullins.

We give out about stewards in Ireland on occasions but, do you know what, they are geniuses when compared to those in some other countries.

An aircraft with 54 people on board crashed in Indonesia’s remote and mountainous region of Papua yesterday, a government official said.

It was, at least from a racing point of view, a magnificent couple of minutes of television. It happened on RTÉ on Wednesday, in the aftermath of Jonathan Burke guiding Shanahan’s Turn to a memorable success in the Galway Plate.

The aftermath of Cheltenham didn’t half throw up a somewhat bizarre story, with Jim Culloty giving Davy Russell the bullet, telling him he would ride no more of his charges, including last year’s Cheltenham Gold Cup hero, Lord Windermere.

When Enda Bolger’s Gilgamboa won his first two races over fences, he shaped as a real star of the future, says Pat Keane.

TransAsia Airways representatives yesterday met with relatives of the victims of last week’s plane crash in Taiwan to discuss compensation after it began distributing money to families of the deceased for funeral costs.

If the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle were taking place at Cheltenham tomorrow wouldn’t you sell out on Douvan at 5-2?

The more you study the manner in which French stewards interpret their rules the more one is inclined to the view that the way they do things is the right way.

The Irish Oaks at the Curragh last Saturday, or at least the delay in getting the race away, was a bit of a farce.

Aer Lingus Regional, operated by Aer Arann, today announced an additional 100,000 seats in 50 flights per week and a new route from Dublin to Newcastle.

Teams of French and Thai experts plied the vast and muddy Mekong River with high-tech sonar equipment today, ramping up the search for a Lao Airlines plane, 19 bodies still missing from the crash and clues to why the aircraft went down three days earlier.

Rescuers in fishing boats pulled bodies from the muddy Mekong River in Laos after a plane crashed in stormy weather, killing 49 people from 11 countries.

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.

An attempt to land a plane too fast and without full control of its approach angle in strong winds were the probable causes of a crash at Shannon Airport, an investigation has found.

Aer Arann collected the first of eight new turboprop ATR 72-600 planes in Toulouse, France yesterday.

Torrential rain and strong winds caused significant flooding across Munster last night.

A Dublin-based aviation company has confirmed the signing of an agreement which will see it acquire TNT Airways and Pan Air Líneas Aéreas from TNT Express.

The Irish aviation sector recorded the highest level of accidents and serious incidents in recent years during 2011, the annual safety performance review of the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) reveals.

The president of the Olympic Committee of Ireland has refuted allegations by former Brazilian football great Romário that he had abused his position to ensure his son’s company got the contract to sell tickets for the Rio Olympic Games in 2016.

Olympic organisers have launched an investigation after claims that tickets for sponsors have been sold to the public at hiked up prices.

Remember some of the press reports about Dawn Approach, after the horse had beaten Mister Marc by two and three quarter lengths at Naas last month?

When Dermot Weld’s Speaking Of Which won his maiden at Cork in early April the bank balance was immediately in a healthier state.

THE more one looks at last Monday’s King George at Kempton, the more convinced you become that the Cheltenham Gold Cup is Long Run’s to lose.

I CANNOT ever remember the early part of a National Hunt season which delivered so much and produced so many promising young horses.

YOU would have to love what Mount Benbulben did in a Grade 2 novice hurdle at Navan last Sunday.

AER ARANN has been advised to review its maximum crosswind limitations for approaches and landing at Shannon Airport after an incident last July when the nose wheel of one if its aircraft failed on landing.

I DID not enjoy the Curragh last Sunday one little bit and I’ll tell you why: noise, noise and more noise!

One or two betting tickets may have been needed to be retrieved from the floor after the improbable success of Curragh Dancer in Plumpton's attheraces.com Exclusive Hugh Taylor Tipping Novices' Handicap Chase today.

Recovery teams removed the last charred bodies from the wreckage of a plane which went down in mountainous central Cuba, as officials vowed today to get to the bottom of what caused the crash and said they have the capacity to do it alone.

THE High Court has extended court protection for Aer Arann to Friday next when it will be asked to approve survival plans for the troubled airline.