A major multi-agency emergency exercise was held yesterday afternoon at Shannon Airport involving up to 150 personnel.

An Aer Lingus flight carrying more than 180 passengers had to make an emergency landing Dublin Airport shortly after take off yesterday — the third such incident in a week.

An Aer Lingus jet had to make an emergency landing in New York shortly after it took off on Monday night due to a technical fault on board.

The messages sent via social media since the tragic story of Jack and Sarah Corbett emerged are no less poignant for their predictability.

A rapper who starred alongside pop star Bressie in an RTÉ reality show, has been given a 12-month 'rap on the knuckles' by a judge.

BUTLERS, plumbers, doormen, florists, the executive pastry chef: these are just some of the hundreds of people that work at the White House for the President of the USA.

Life in Listowel conjures images of Synge’s words, ‘the springtime of the local life has not been forgotten’. With cuts to arts budgets around the country, it is more imperative than ever that the likes of Writers’ Week see resources renewed and replenished, writes Jim Kennelly

How Argentina’s men — coached energetically by Pat Spillane — had any emotions left after their extra-time victory in the international final is beyond me. But they did, and displayed the sort of joy you associate with their colourful soccer history.

The sensation was strange at first. Unfamiliar.

A major JP versus JFK row has erupted in Limerick over the renaming of a bridge at a secret session of the city council.

On Sept 28, 1963, I saw, at the Las Vegas Convention Center, President John F Kennedy. At that moment, he became a hero of mine.

The last of the Irish cousins of the famous Kennedy dynasty gathered at their ancestral homestead to remember John F Kennedy yesterday.

THE date most closely associated with the Secret Service isn’t its founding, in 1865. It’s not 1902, when it assumed full-time protection of the president, following William McKinley’s assassination.

Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of JFK, began her role on November 18 as US Ambassador to Japan. Kennedy starts her high profile job just days before the 50th anniversary of the assassination of her father.

As mourners filed past the coffin of the slain John F Kennedy in the US capital, 140 miles away the Washington Redskins kicked off against the Philadelphia Eagles.

In the year 2063 Ireland will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of JFK’s visit, not the 50th anniversary of Clare Daly’s comments to Enda Kenny.

THE past is a foreign country.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny has joined John F Kennedy's daughter in lighting the 'Emigrants' Flame' in New Ross, County Wexford this evening.

Kennedy always got close to Irish crowds, writes Ray Ryan

Next week the eternal flame from JFK’s tomb will make its first ever expedition anywhere.

Irish Paper 2 was on the morning agenda for Leaving Certificate students, with higher level comprehension pieces about Apple founder Steve Jobs and the 40th anniversary of Raidió na Gaeltachta drawing praise.

WHEN Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry first dreamed up the concept of a television show based in the unexplored universe of Outer Space in 1964, the world was a very different place.

Siptu’s rejection of the LRC proposals on pay and reform can be a fresh start for all, says Colm Keaveney

White House photos and other mementoes of John F Kennedy’s 1963 visit to Ireland have made more than $18,500 (€14,000) under the hammer.

The people behind an event to commemorate the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s visit to Ireland said they are “cautiously optimistic” that president Barack Obama will take part in the celebrations in Wexford this June.

Barack Obama's Irish relative, Henry Healy, has said he is confident of another Presidential visit to Ireland.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr is convinced that a lone gunman was not solely responsible for the assassination of his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, and said his father believed the Warren Commission report was a “shoddy piece of workmanship”.

Transatlantic flights are still suffering the effects of superstorm Sandy.

Possibly the fittest couple in Ireland stole the show at a gruelling 50-mile walk through the rugged countryside at the weekend.

Every family has its share of pain and triumph. And then there are the Kennedys.

Thirty years on, the Human League still dare to be different, says Ed Power

There’s another Kennedy running for Congress, and a day after he had officially launched his campaign, Joseph P Kennedy III got some advice from a man who knows a thing or two about winning elections.

A US auction house specialising in collectible classic cars plans to sell the hearse used to carry the body of President John F Kennedy from a Dallas hospital to Air Force One.

FEAR and loathing continues to dominate Fine Gael and Labour’s pre-budget bust-ups.

If ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ is indeed Michael Bay's final entry in the Hasbro toy-inspired franchise, as he has repeatedly intimated, then it is a fitting swan song for a director whose lust - and gift - for spectacle remains unmatched.

The head of the International Monetary Fund was today waiting to be brought before a US court accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid.

The New York court appearance for the International Money Fund chief accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid has been delayed, his lawyer said today.

FORGET the hysteria surrounding the up-coming visit by Queen Elizabeth — she’s so last empire — our new colonial lords and masters, the EU/IMF troika, are already in town, and how we bow and scrape at their approach.

Lindsay Lohan has quit smoking and has been working out with a personal trainer every morning after giving up the habit a week ago.

New York’s airports struggled today to clear a huge backlog of flights that stranded thousands of passengers across the United States.

HAD a good Christmas prezzie haul, dear reader? I got most of what I wanted in the first 20 minutes against Sunderland, thanks for asking: that sort of sparkling play-through-a-hangover carefree performance is exactly what St Stephen’s Day football should be about.

THE Shannon Airport Authority (SAA) has failed to attract a scheduled service based on its €21 million US-Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in the 12 months since the service was introduced.