The tide is turning at Cork Airport after CityJet announced a high-frequency service to London City Airport from October.

Wishing for better times may have become a national past time but one schoolboy has turned the dreary national attitude to his advantage — catching the eye of a world-leading firm in the process.

The prize-winning art of a Co Clare teenager will be seen by millions of internet users this week when it appears on the Google Ireland homepage.

DANIEL DECAVELHO, Ryanair European communications manager, told the court after the press release was issued, he received a phone call from Ms Davison’s father, the singer Chris de Burgh, in which Mr de Burgh said he would sue Ryanair and Mr McNamara personally unless they apologised.