Forget your fascinators and gorgeous gúnas, this year’s Irish Open is all about the wackiest dressed in homage to golf legend, and sometime fashionista, John Daly.

The Irish Stock Exchange has launched a platform to help aviation companies raise money by trading debt instruments.

It was a security consultant’s nightmare and a moment to savour — royalty, airline bosses, plane-makers and press hordes wedged into the same overcrowded room wanting to see the same thing: the colour of money in the oil-rich and fast-growing Gulf.

Arsenal have reported a rise in turnover and say their new commercial muscle was a significant factor in the signing of Mesut Ozil for a club record £42.5 million (€50m) fee.

Chief executive Ivan Gazidis maintains Arsenal are not about to just buy their way to success – and claims the fans would not have it any different.

Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis maintains the club’s £150m (€186m) extension of their sponsorship deal with Emirates airline is “all about football”.

The Emirates airline is set to upgrade its Dublin aircraft to cope with unprecedented demand for the first direct Dublin to Dubai route.

United Airlines is to operate a new daily direct Dublin-Washington service from next June.

The Emirates airline is to begin a new daily Dublin-Dubai service from January, it was announced today.

Desperate European travellers stranded overseas struggled to find a way home, clamouring for information on flights into the continent’s few airports not closed by the dangerous cloud of ash from an Icelandic volcano.

The United Arab Emirates’ central bank is saying it “stands behind” local and foreign banks operating in the country, offering them access to money in a sign the Gulf Arab nation’s federal government is racing to curtail investor fears over Dubai’s crushing debt.

Curlin thrilled connections in his most important workout before the Dubai World Cup on March 29.

Leinster's Felipe Contepomi has been short-listed for the International Rugby Board World Player of the Year.

The International Rugby Board has announced the dates and teams for the first two events of the 2007/08 IRB Sevens World Series.

New Zealand gained revenge for their Dubai Sevens loss last week when they defeated South Africa in front of their home crowd 24-17 in a pulsating Emirates Airline George Sevens final at Outeniqua Park.

AIRLINES planning to allow mobile phones on planes will not be able to do so in Irish airspace because continent wide broadcasting regulations have yet to be ironed out.

THE International Rugby Board (IRB) has announced that a photograph by Morgan Treacy of the Inpho agency in Dublin has won the inaugural IRB/Emirates Airline Rugby Photograph of the Year Award.

GODOLPHIN are looking to St Leger runner-up The Geezer and Cherry Mix to improve their impressive record in the Emirates Airline Yorkshire Cup Friday week.

The appointment of a new chief executive at Aer Lingus is a key step on its road to success, Transport Minister Martin Cullen said today.

Emirates Airline will sponsor the Breeders’ Cup Distaff and the Filly & Mare Turf at Belmont Park on October 29 in a multi-year deal.

MALCOLM GLAZER could have a few killer blows up his sleeve that may help persuade shareholders to give him control of Manchester United.

Arsenal will abandon their famous red and white colours for their final season at Highbury in favour of claret shirts modelled on the ones they wore when they moved into the famous stadium.

England will face Fiji in the semi-finals of the Emirates Airline South Africa Sevens after crushing Tunisia 52-0.

GODOLPHIN have high hopes of landing their first Champion Stakes success with a three-horse attack on the Emirates Airline-sponsored Group One event at Newmarket today.

A HUGE surge in tourist numbers is expected next month as one of the world’s biggest equestrian events comes to Co Kildare.

The Rugby Football Union has begged the southern hemisphere nations to give them a fair deal over Home Unions’ contribution to Lions tours.

A device aiming to reduce the risk of passengers on long haul flights developing potentially fatal blood clots is being heralded by a London scientist.