Quinn staff have offered their 'unequivocal support' for the 'highly respected' executive and his family.

The group is also considering setting up its European Headquarters in Ireland.

Aer Lingus has announced special Autumn fares to North America.

The Irish airline as celebrating being Ireland's only four-star airline.

The FAI has announced UEFA's Noel Mooney is to take up a six-month secondment with the Football Association of Ireland.

A Rwandan national whose family was devastated by the 1994 genocide has admitted on its 25th anniversary that not even time can heal the wounds.

Aer Lingus has announced today that it is introducing a new customised mood lighting system to its fleet of aircraft.

As John Delaney took his seat in the small stand of the Victoria Stadium in Gibraltar on Saturday night, to watch Ireland play their opening 2020 European Championship qualifier, he already knew that this was going to be the last international game he would attend as Chief Executive Officer of the FAI.

The FAI has confirmed that John Delaney will attend a meeting of the Oireachtas Committee on Sport next month.

The FAI has confirmed that chief executive John Delaney has stepped down from the position but will remain within the Association executive as vice president.

The CEO of Aer Lingus has issued an apology to the airline's staff over reports that workers had stolen or damaged millions of euro worth of passenger, staff and company goods.

The flights from Cork to the Portuguese capital will begin in October 2018.

An animal charity has released a shocking video and photographs of a woman, violently kicking a dog to highlight the aftermath of cruelty they deal with, all too frequently.

A full house of 30,000 will watch Galway play Dublin in Boston in Super 11 hurling. It provides a platform to present hurling to larger audiences, writes Donal Óg Cusack from Boston.

Tesco Ireland has created 49 new jobs at its Tesco Extra Dundalk store, which was officially opened today by Minister of State for Business and Employment at the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Ged Nash TD.

There are growing calls for an independent inquiry into Letterkenny General Hospital after it was hit by flooding for the second time in the space of a year.

Fifty jobs have been created in sales and the food sector as Field Management Ireland and Monaghan Mushrooms announced they are hiring.

The Minister for Health Dr James Reilly has announced that Tony O'Brien will become the new Director General designate for the Health Service Executive.

National Grid UK has signed a contract with Element Power to provide 3,000 megawatts of electricity to Britain from Ireland - through two subsea cables as 2,000 new jobs are to be created in Ireland as part of an €8bn euro renewable energy investment.

Ulster Bank has confirmed its customers will be able to access the funds in their bank accounts this weekend.

Facebook’s top executives, including chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, are eligible for twice-a-year bonuses of up to 45% of their base salaries and other earnings, according to a recent regulatory filing.

Bank of Ireland is to split its Ireland and UK retail division in two.

Lady Gaga has been named the most powerful female celebrity in the world by Forbes.

Superquinn announced today that Andrew Street is to join the business as chief executive on December 2.

BP might consider drilling once again into the same lucrative undersea pocket of oil that spilled millions of gallons of crude, wrecked livelihoods and fouled beaches along the Gulf of Mexico.

Oil giant BP was cautiously optimistic today after finally winning control of the catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil leak.

A BP executive said today the company expected to be capturing virtually all the oil leaking from the Gulf of Mexico sea bed by early next week.

BP OFFICIALS yesterday expressed their disappointment at failing to plug the uncontrolled flow of oil from the worst spill in US history.

BP officials today expressed their disappintment at failing to plug the uncontrolled flow of oil from the worst spill in US history.

Engineers were today anxiously waiting to see if their experimental repair attempt on the blown Gulf of Mexico oil rig would succeed.

Energy firm Energia is to add wave power to its 220 MW renewable energy portfolio after it signed an agreement for the purchase of electricity generated with the pioneering US firm Ocean Energy Systems (OES).

POLICE broke into a blogger’s home in search of photographs of a prototype Apple iPhone and other material, launching a felony investigation, gadget site Gizmodo and prosecutors said.

Car giant General Motors was warned its future is in “substantial doubt” by auditors, it emerged today.

THE Football League have confirmed there is no prospect of the Coca-Cola Championship clash between Watford and Reading being replayed.

ALAN O’MAHONY (Letters, February 16) highlights Ryanair’s offer to use the old terminal at Cork airport in return for a reduced passenger cost.

An operation began today to rescue around 3,000 South African gold miners trapped a mile underground when a falling pipe damaged their lift.

The planning tribunal has today seen a report by the Taoiseach's banking expert concerning a lodgement made by Bertie Ahern in 1994 which equates to $45,000 (€31,939).

Global newspaper circulation rose nearly 2% in 2006 and the number of newspaper titles also increased significantly, according to provisional data revealed today by the World Association of Newspapers.

Tottenham coach Martin Jol looks set to receive a bumper transfer kitty this summer after the club announced a €50m sponsorship deal with internet casino group Mansion.

Solid employment data renewed Wall Street’s inflation worries and sent stocks skidding today, with a bond sell-off overshadowing a fresh drop in oil prices.

The Airbus A380 has passed its emergency evacuation test, the European aircraft maker announced in Paris today, in an important step toward the superjumbo’s official certification for commercial flights.

European aircraft maker Airbus today named Barry Eccleston as the new head of Airbus North America Holdings, its US subsidiary.

Up to 500,000 people are expected to fly on new low-cost routes connecting Cork, Knock and Shannon with London’s Gatwick airport in their first year of operation, it was claimed today.