A group representing Ireland’s military officers has warned Government it must immediately give the Defence Forces the necessary funding to prevent fundamentalist terrorist attacks on this country.

GAVIN O’CONNOR is from Blarney, Co Cork, and plays the role of Fianna Fail politician, Seán Doherty, in the series Charlie, which begins on RTÉ One on Sunday.

An asbestos clean-up has begun on a third Naval Service vessel after the potentially lethal substance was found on board last Saturday.

One of the rarest and most impressive sights in the natural world has been captured off the coast of Ireland.

One of the rarest and most impressive sights in the natural world has been captured off the coast of Ireland.

Some of these are really amazing.

Expert hoteliers and presenters of RTÉ’s hit television series At Your Service, Francis and John Brennan, are going to revamp a respite centre used by one of their biggest fans next month.

A critcally-ill patient has been transferred to hospital in London, in an overnight operation involving the Air Corps.

The costs of operating the two government jets declined dramatically last year.

THE Government Learjet was deployed in its first “top-cover” role yesterday when it was sent to assist the Shannon-based Irish Coast Guard (ICG) helicopter in a medical evacuation (medivac) mission off the Clare coast.

A PSNI air crew who escaped major injury when their helicopter flipped upside down on landing are lucky to be alive, a senior officer said tonight.

The families of two men feared drowned when they vanished while fishing were tonight anxiously waiting for news on their loved ones.

A FEW days in New York leaves you wondering – what recession? No point in chipping up to one of the hot restaurants without a reservation.

SOME of the country’s largest firms continued to show their charitable side this Christmas, despite the economic downturn.

AUSTRALIAN civil aviation officials yesterday announced an unprecedented special review of Qantas after three mid-air dramas in the space of two weeks threatened to tarnish its safety record.

Twenty members of the Polish military were killed on their way back from a flight-safety conference when their plane crashed in a wooded area.

GOVERNMENT ministers remain steadfastly reliant on their ministerial cars and government aircraft to travel countrywide and worldwide, according to new figures.

Minister for Tourism Seamus Brennan will make a guest appearance this weekend at the country’s biggest all-Irish free air show.

Former Neighbours star Kimberley Davies may have cracked a rib while jumping 15ft from a helicopter to win food for her jungle mates on ITV’s I’m A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!

PARENTS who forbid their daughters to date older boys may be on the right track - teenage girls who associate with older boys are more likely to smoke, drink and use drugs.

A gala screening of John Sayles Casa De Los Babys will open this year's Belfast Film Festival - the fourth - on March 25.

I AM asking your readers for help on behalf of CASA, the Caring & Sharing Association, a voluntary organisation that provides social activities, pilgrimages to Lourdes, holidays and respite care for those who are sick or have a physical or intellectual disability.

The Taoiseach has described the controversy surrounding Mary Harney's use of a government plane to travel to open a friend's off-licence in Co Leitrim as "a puff of smoke".

Four people were reported killed and 40 others injured when an airliner crash landed on a road near Malaga airport on Spain’s Costa del Sol today.

Failure by Australian airline Qantas to teach pilots how to land on wet runways was the main reason for the crash involving one of its jumbo jets in Bangkok, a report has concluded.

Australia’s second largest airline scrambled today to find seats for thousands of passengers after aviation authorities grounded 10 of its planes because of sloppy maintenance.