Westmeath 2-18 Laois 2-15, Cusack Park

Intrade, the Dublin-headquartered online service that lets people bet with one another on events such as elections and the weather, has ceased trading activity, saying it is investigating possible financial irregularities.

Laois 1-19 Kildare 1-10

The Derry, Laois and Kerry hurlers all got their Allianz NHL Division 2A campaigns off to winning starts this afternoon.

Health insurers have claimed Health Minister James Reilly’s reform plans will “force” them to impose new 20-40% premium cover price hikes onto already cash-strapped customers.

For Saturday's Leinster SHC quarter-final against Dublin, the Laois hurlers are unchanged from the side which beat Carlow a fortnight ago.

Laois 0-20 Carlow 0-13

The development of the Liffey Valley shopping centre at Quarryvale in west Dublin is one of the most controversial in the county’s history.

John Allen secured his first win as Limerick hurling boss in Portlaoise yesterday.

Limerick 1-24 Laois 2-12

Offaly cantered to a comprehensive 12 points victory in this lack lustre Allianz NHL Division 1B opening round encounter at O’Connor Park, Tullamore yesterday as Laois never recovered from the dismissal of Michael McEvoy in the 21st minute.

Offaly 1-27 Laois 0-18

Laois manager Brendan Fennelly has opted to make three changes in personnel for Saturday's All-Ireland SHC qualifier against Cork in Portlaoise (throw-in 3pm).

ANTRIM star Neil McManus doesn’t want Saturday’s Leinster SHC victory over Laois to be a one-off.

Laois 0-20 Antrim 0-16

A JUDGE has described texts and emails sent by a German national to a clinical psychologist as “chilling, disturbing and ominous”.

Recently-appointed Laois senior hurling manager Brendan Fennelly has announced his 28-man panel for the 2011 campaign.

DESPITE being relatively new to Aer Lingus, former Ryanair executive Sean Coyle is seen as a front-runner to succeed Dermot Mannion as chief executive.

WEB Reservations International (WRI), which owns several online accommodation booking websites, increased its profits by almost 30% in 2006.

MURDER was the ultimate price being paid by the victims of domestic violence, a seminar heard yesterday.

LABOUR leader Pat Rabbitte has accused the Taoiseach of abuse of parliamentary privilege following his remarks that former Aer Lingus executives wanted to steal the airline’s assets through a management buy-out two years ago.

Review of the year compiled by Niamh Hennessy.

Aer Lingus profits were soaring when the controversial plan to push staff out was drawn up, writes Paul O’Brien.

AER LINGUS needs up €1.5 billion if it is to expand its long-haul services, the airline’s chairman said yesterday.

THE two executives who left Aer Lingus in tandem with new British Airways chief executive Willie Walsh are unlikely to join their former boss — for now.

FORMER Aer Lingus boss Willie Walsh has landed the €850,000-a-year job as chief executive of British Airways.

OTHER candidates for the top job at BA to be filled by former Aer Lingus boss Willie Walsh were Cathay Pacific chief operating officer Tony Tyler and James Hogan, a former BMI executive who runs Gulf Air.

A man with aviation fuel running through his veins, BA’s new chief executive Willie Walsh could fly before he could drive.

Aer Lingus has begun advertising the position of chief executive ahead of the resignation of Willie Walsh and his management team before the end of this month.

Harry McGee, Political Editor

Aer Lingus has announced that chief executive Willie Walsh and his management team are to resign their positions in the company by the end of this month.

Aer Lingus chief executive Willie Walsh and his management team are reportedly set to resign from their positions in the coming days.

THE management trio running Aer Lingus should be removed immediately if reports that they are planning to form a rival airline are true, SIPTU has said.

The Aer Lingus executives who announced their resignations last year after failing in a proposed buy-out of the airline are reportedly planning to set up a new low-cost operator.

SENIOR management at Aer Lingus resigned as they believed their plans for the airline were losing support and they felt they “had brought Aer Lingus as far as they could”, it has emerged.

NOBODY is going to bounce the Government into making decision on the future of Aer Lingus, Enterprise Trade and Employment Minister Micheál Martin declared last night.

The Minister for Transport Martin Cullen is to meet the interim chairman of Aer Lingus, John Sharman, tomorrow.

The resignations of three Aer Lingus bosses is a catastrophe for the airline and for Ireland, it was claimed tonight.

The Chief Executive of Aer Lingus Willie Walsh is to resign from the airline.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern and new Transport Minister Martin Cullen face embarrassing questions this morning as a gaping communications gaffe emerged at the heart of Government.

MANAGEMENT at Aer Lingus will brace themselves for the threat of strike action later today when the results of a ballot of members of trade union SIPTU are announced.

BRITISH Airways is mulling a possible takeover bid for Irish state airline Aer Lingus, BA’s chief executive officer has been quoted as saying.

SOONER or later private investors will be able to get their hands on Aer Lingus shares.