Ireland’s three main airports will usher in a new era in transatlantic travel this weekend with the launch of direct low-cost flights to America.

The airline poised to launch low-cost flights from Ireland to America next summer has confirmed it is considering landing at secondary US airports — each up to 100km from Boston and New York, respectively — to keep costs down.

Police in Brazil have named Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) sports director Martin Burke as a new suspect in their ticket touting probe.

The American president is more moderate on foreign policy, and more sceptical of intervention, than the hawkish woman who may succeed him this year, says TP O’Mahony

Adi Roche and Ali Hewson have been presented with a global humanitarian award.

DotA 2 fans will get the chance to part with their money once again this year, as the Compendium has been released to fund The International 2015's prize.

The animal rights' group famous for saving a gay bull have turned their attention to fur, and are planning a high-impact demonstration in Dublin today.

Autumn International

In statements reported in your newspaper (June 23), Minister for Justice and Equality, Frances Fitzgerald, lacks understanding of the asylum processes.

Chris Hadfield, the retired Canadian astronaut, rock star, and internet sensation, began his new role as an ambassador for tourism to Ireland with four short films promoting the Emerald Isle.

A hidden talent search has been launched across Ireland with the aim of discovering one extraordinary person with the nation's most unusual talent.

Madonna said she will be “honoured” to introduce two members of the campaigning Russian punk band Pussy Riot on stage at an Amnesty International concert next month.

Tiger Woods won the deciding match for a third straight time and the United States lifted the Presidents Cup for a fifth straight time as they beat the International team 18.5 to 15.5 in Dublin, Ohio.

Declaration Of War and Al Kazeem are provisionally in line for a rematch at Leopardstown tomorrow after both horses were declared for the Red Mills Irish Champion Stakes.

Gardaí are continuing their search for a man in his 50s following a gas explosion in Killarney earlier.

Concerns have been raised for the whereabouts of a man following a suspected gas explosion in Co Kerry today.

The future of the Paralympic movement will not be determined by the outcome of the Oscar Pistorius murder case, according to International Paralympic Committee president Philip Craven.

Airport scanners with their all-too revealing body images are to be scrapped, America’s transport authority says.

We saw again yesterday the relentless nature of life’s cycle — birth, growth, achievement, death, the pain of absence and then almost inevitably rejuvenation.

It really is sad that watching the weather forecast has become more important than anything the Form Book can tell us.

An Irish army officer who played a key role with the UN during the Balkans war is due to give crucial evidence at the trial of Serb general Ratko Mladic in The Hague.

Aidan O’Brien is relishing a clash with Frankel when he sends the “exciting” St Nicholas Abbey to the Juddmonte International at York next week.

Drinks group Britvic today announced group revenue of £641.1m (€797.9m) for the first half of the financial year, a rise of 1.7% on the previous year, saying it was on track to deliver full-year performance in line with expectations.

The Ireland squads for this month’s European Bowling championships in Pesaro, Italy were announced last night at a ceremony in which four new European team cups were also unveiled.

A New York City judge is expected to rule by the end of the week on whether to throw out a hotel maid’s lawsuit claiming that former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexually assaulted her.

French cinema legend Gerard Depardieu says he is going to play former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn – because he does not like him.

The Ireland Club team that will defend their Dal Riada trophy in the Ulster Bank Club International against the Scotland Club team at Anglesea Road on Friday, March 9 has been named.

ON November 30 last, the Irish public was invited to vote online to choose one of four logos to visually represent Ireland’s presidency of the European Union in 2013.

Michael Lohan is undergoing heart surgery.

TALENTED Annascaul and West Kerry GAA player Brendan O’Driscoll, 28, was removed to Cork University Hospital last night after collapsing in a club game.

A NEW round of reports on the Dominique Strauss- Kahn case suggests an attempt at collusion between the attorneys defending the former International Monetary Fund director and those representing his accuser, Sofitel hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo.

HENRY Cecil confirmed the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes as the next intended port of call for incredible Sussex Stakes winner Frankel.

A French novelist who accused former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape is pressing ahead with legal action against him.

ANYTHING less than a perfect replica of the 2000 Guineas was always going to be a disappointment for Frankel fans, but connections issued no cause for alarm as he took his unbeaten record to seven in the St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot.

THE incoming Government will have to hit the ground running to ensure Ireland’s existing allocation under CAP is not diminished by a single euro, Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association president Jackie Cahill cautioned.

A woman who travelled out of Ireland to terminate a pregnancy while in remission from cancer had her human rights violated because of the country’s ban on abortion, European judges ruled today.

INTERNATIONAL Cork based engineering group Kentech last year returned to profit after revenues increased by 17% to $137 million (€102.8m).

NEXT week, world leaders will gather in New York for the 10th anniversary of the UN millennium development goals.

Profound Beauty is not certain to run in the Melbourne Cup.