The Government announced yesterday that Bus Éireann is to purchase 48 new single deck city buses from the Wright Group in Ballymena in a deal worth €11.5m.

Forty job losses at a prawn processing plant in Wexford are a major blow for the region’s maritime industry, the Labour Party Deputy for Wexford said today.

One hundred years after the Wright brothers’ first flight, an attempt to recreate the moment failed in the USA when a replica craft could not get off the ground and sputtered into the mud.