IRISH Continental Group plc (ICG) has sold the ferry Bilbao to the St Peter Line in Nicosia, Cyprus, for €37.7 million, payable in instalments over 5.75 years, up to September 2016.

All the ships trapped in thick ice in the Baltic Sea have now been freed.

THE rights of trade unions to take industrial action against the use of cheap labour from Eastern European nations were bolstered by recommendations issued at the European Court of Justice yesterday.

Unions fighting the threat of cheap labour from migrant workers from new EU member states won the latest round of a legal battle over equal pay today.

A ferry has run aground with 780 passengers on board after hitting a rock in stormy weather in the Baltic Sea.