A promotions firm once headed by legendary showband singer Joe Dolan has been slapped with a €3.8m bill for unpaid tax, it emerged today.

AER LINGUS will today tell unions that hundreds of staff need to be outsourced as part of its €100 million cost-saving programme.

SIPTU has sought an immediate meeting with Aer Lingus management at which it wants assurances the jobs of more than 1,300 of its members will not be outsourced.

BOSSES at Cork Airport defended their controversial new €160 million terminal building yesterday following criticism from airport operators that the old building had better facilities and is more user-friendly.

Travellers will have to contend with another baggage handlers’ strike at a major holiday airport this weekend.

Hundreds of baggage handlers at Gatwick Airport will go ahead with a 48-hour strike from midnight after hopes of a last-minute breakthrough ended today.

Hundreds of baggage handlers at Gatwick airport will stage a 48-hour strike this weekend in a long-running row over working practices and the suspension of a union official, it was announced today.

Passengers using Gatwick airport were today advised to check in as normal despite another strike by baggage handlers in a long running dispute over workloads and the suspension of a union official.

Hundreds of baggage handlers at Gatwick airport will stage another strike today in a dispute over workloads and the suspension of a union official, with further walkouts being planned.

Hundreds of baggage handlers at one of Britain's busiest airports began another strike today in a row over workloads and the suspension of a union official.

Workers who refuel aircraft at Heathrow airport were tonight preparing to launch a 48 hour strike after rejecting a two year pay offer.

Hundreds of baggage handlers and maintenance workers at Gatwick Airport are to strike on Saturday in a row over workloads, threatening travel chaos, it was announced today.

JETMAGIC is to be wound up after a search for fresh investors failed to secure an estimated €15 million required to re-start the company which ceased operations from its Cork base in January.

AER Lingus chief executive Willie Walsh said the 102 redundancies being sought from ground-handling staff at Shannon Airport will be voluntary.

Just five teams remain in the Nevada Bobs Inter-Society match play tournament for the Cork area. Wellington Road, Stryker Howmedica and Dennehys Cross are into the semi- finals and await the winners of the Flannery’s Bar/Novartis B tie.

THE number of jobs lost following the sudden closure of Cork-based airline Jetmagic has risen to 128.

WORKERS at Servisair will attend a meeting in Cork Airport today where they are expected to be informed of some job losses as a result of airline Jetmagic’s collapse.

COMPANIES who operate in conjunction with CityJet handling airports throughout the country have been warned by the country’s biggest trade union that they face industrial action if they continue to do so.

An escalation of the CityJet baggage-handling dispute is on the cards as Aer Lingus, Aer Rianta, Servisair and FLS workers have indicated they want to play a more active role in supporting their colleagues.

Thousands of passengers at Dublin Airport could face disruption from today, due to industrial action due to be taken by Servisair ground staff.

Management at the Servisair baggage handling firm has said that disruption to the passengers at Dublin Airport can be kept to a minimum, even if SIPTU goes ahead with its planned industrial action.

The organisation representing the country’s bosses issued a defiant recovery message last night in the face of official figures highlighting the scale of the economic slowdown this year.

Two hundred and seventy Servisair ground handling staff at Dublin Airport have been put on protective notice.