A privately-owned jet was filled with the largest ever amount of aviation fuel taken on by a single aircraft at Shannon Airport during a stopover on Wednesday night.

Seven members of the UK House of Lords and a leading British politician have called on the FIA to cancel this year’s Bahrain Grand Prix.

Anti-government protesters defied a ban by marching on the headquarters of Bahrain’s main opposition party, pressing ahead with their campaign for greater political and civil rights for the nation’s Shiite Muslims.

Ireland is to open an Embassy in the United Arab Emirates this year, it was revealed today.