A decision to refuse planning permission for a large-scale office block in Dublin as it could jeopardise plans for the €4.5bn Dart underground has been branded unreasonable and unnecessary by the developer.

A LOW-COST airline has gone into receivership before it began flying, it emerged yesterday.

NO-FRILLS airlines warned yesterday that more and more carriers could follow British airline Duo in going bust in the increasingly risky low-cost flight market, but denied that the bubble had burst on the demand for cheaper flights.

Air passengers due to return to the UK were left stranded around Europe today after the collapse of a carrier which had operated for just seven months.

Two new routes linking Shannon Airport with Birmingham and Edinburgh have been announced by the British airline Duo.