Galway’s Gaelic football and hurling teams will have the same jersey, crest, and sponsor for the first time.

The decision by Aer Arann to end its flights to and from Waterford Regional Airport, leaving the airport serviced by just one other airline on one route, has been met with disappointment.

The chief executive of Waterford Airport, Graham Doyle, has expressed his disappointment after Aer Arann announced they are to discontinue their services at the airport from early January 2013.

An interim examiner has been appointed by the High Court to a west of Ireland family bakery business employing 82 people on the basis of an independent accountant’s view that it has a reasonable prospect of survival with expected investment of €1m.

A withdrawal of a government subsidy on the Kerry /Dublin route could threaten the survival of Kerry Airport, the airport’s AGM was told yesterday.

AN Aer Arann flight from Bristol to Cork was delayed for four hours on Thursday after the pilot was arrested on suspicion of being over the legal alcohol limit to fly.

FOUR counties remain hopeful of securing jersey sponsors before the start of next month’s Allianz Leagues.

DESPITE warnings about ‘throwing good money after bad’, Kerry County Council yesterday approved a financial contribution for the troubled Cork-Swansea Ferry during its period in examinership.

TRANSPORT Minister Leo Varadkar has said that he intends to phase out subsidies for regional airports altogether.

The Managing Director of Galway Airport has described Aer Arann's decision to suspend all of its flights in and out of the facility as a "huge blow".

AER ARANN has been advised to review its maximum crosswind limitations for approaches and landing at Shannon Airport after an incident last July when the nose wheel of one if its aircraft failed on landing.

A passenger flight skidded on its nose for more than a kilometre during landing at one of Ireland’s busiest airports last month, air accident investigators have found.

AIRLINE officials have insisted there were no safety issues involved in the evacuation of passengers from two separate planes on the same route in the space of five days.

A WEST Cork retail store has been ordered by the Equality Tribunal to pay €15,000 compensation to an employee for failing to accommodate her return to work following an illness.

PASSENGERS and crew on board an Aer Lingus flight escaped injury yesterday when the nose wheel on their plane collapsed shortly after the flights second attempted landing at Shannon Airport.

AN Aer Lingus plane, operated by Aer Arann, was forced to return to Shannon Airport yesterday after experiencing technical difficulties shortly after take-off.

TOURISM and business interests locally have warned the future of Kerry Airport could depend on the continuation of a government subsidy, through the Public Service Obligation (PSO) contract payment.

THE future of regional airports including Galway, Kerry, Donegal and Knock is in doubt with more than a third of state support to be slashed under the four year plan published last week.

THE executive chairman of Aer Arann Padraig O’Ceidigh said last night that he plans to double the size of the airline in the next four years and intends to employ an additional 50 to 60 new staff over the next nine months.

The High Court has given the examiner appointed to Aer Arann further time to produce his report.

RYANAIR chief Michael O’Leary is due in Kerry today and is expected to spell out the reasons for his airline’s major reduction in services on the Kerry to Dublin route.

PASSENGER bookings with Aer Arann held steady in its first day of trading under High Court protection, the airline said yesterday.

AER ARANN plans to suspend its flights from Cork to Dublin and Belfast at the end of next month.

DOZENS of air passengers had to endure a seven-hour coach journey the length of the country last night after their flight was grounded for safety reasons.

LONG-haul passenger numbers at Aer Lingus continued to plunge last month, while British Airways was preparing to cut thousands of jobs.

ARMAGH defender Aaron Kernan is hopeful that the long-running search for a new senior football manager will be done and dusted within the next fortnight.

A DISABLED writer has claimed she was treated like a “criminal” by an airline after it refused to let her board a plane because of her wheelchair.

AER ARANN has said that it will consider its options over its longstanding “anti-competitive” complaint against Ryanair on the Dublin-Cork route, in light of the Competition Authority effectively ending any inquiry into the matter.

THE future of regional airports such as Kerry, Galway and Donegal are again in the spotlight after the Bord Snip report said they should no longer benefit from state funding.

KERRY Airport had a 6% drop in out-going passengers for the eight months to the end of June, the company’s chairman Denis Cregan told its annual general meeting yesterday.

RYANAIR will wait for the Government to ask it to rescue Aer Lingus before it makes another bid for the airline.

The chairman of Aer Arann, Padraig O'Ceidigh, has announced the appointment of Paul Schütz as the airline’s chief Executive designate.

Regional airports may have to look to international destinations to bring in some public service obligation funding, finds Seán McCárthaigh.

Aer Arann’s new route to Brest is the second of four services to France flying from Cork Airport.

Aer Arann has today launched their new Amsterdam route from Galway and Waterford airports today.

Aer Arann announced as new sponsor of Galway GAA county football team.

A STEWARDESS who went looking for baggage loaders slipped out the back door of an Aer Arann plane onto the tarmac at Dublin Airport in July last year.

RYANAIR has accused the European Commission of promoting “communism” by attempting to re-regulate the aviation industry through the introduction of an EU directive on airport charges.

AIRLINES across Europe have been given four months to stop misleading customers on their ticket sales websites or face closure.

AER ARANN flights into and out of Irish airports look increasingly likely to be grounded for an indefinite period in the coming days as relations between the airline and its workers took another turn for the worse yesterday.

Aer Arann today announced major expansion from Waterford airport.

Lá Nua and Foras na Gaeilge yesterday announced their partnership with PricewaterhouseCooper for this year’s Top 50 Businesses as Gaeilge Awards.

Back row forward John Muldoon has been named Aer Arann Connacht Player of the Month for December.

Samoan Ray Ofisa has been named Aer Arann Connacht Player of the Month for November.