DUBLIN Airport Authority boss Declan Collier has bowed to Government pressure and relinquished his controversial €100,000-plus bonus.

DUBLIN Airport Authority chairman David Dilger is to step down from his position, citing personal reasons. The move, which a statement from the company said would allow Mr Dilger “to afford more time to his broad range of other interests”, will take effect from May 31.

Dublin Airport Authority chairman David Dilger is to step down from his position, it was announced today.

SHANNON Airport received a major boost yesterday with the news that the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) is seeking tenders from third parties to establish a cargo facility at the airport.

THE prospect of establishing a cargo hub at Shannon Airport has received a massive boost.

THE chairman of the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) has warned that if the country’s three state airports secure their autonomy, the country will end up with one airport after not very long.

A GROUP of airline, tourism and economics experts will come together next month to debate the future of Shannon Airport which suffered the worst decline in passenger figures of any European airport in 2010.

Limerick: Chairman of the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) David Dilger will address the Limerick Chamber Christmas lunch at the Carlton Castletroy Park on Friday.

THE Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) yesterday confirmed that Shannon Airport’s head of finance and corporate affairs, Mary Considine is to assume the role of airport director next month.

Passengers passed through Dublin Airport's Terminal 2 today as the new €600m project was officially opened.

DUBLIN Airport said there is “no truth” to claims by Ryanair that 100 of its passengers missed flights because of “half kilometre” queues at security desks.

FORMER Greencore chief executive David Dilger has been appointed chairman of the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA).

Businessman David Dilger was today revealed as the new chairman of the State-owned Dublin Airport Authority (DAA).

GREENCORE’S shock revelations last week that it will write-off €21 million in operating profits was a bolt out of the blue.

GREENCORE chief executive David Dilger warned the company’s Icelandic suitor, Exista, could be gobbled up by Greencore if it attempts a takeover of the Irish convenience food group.

GREENCORE, which makes more than four million sandwiches a week, has announced the expansion of its convenience food sector in the British market.

GREENCORE is planning to enter the US chilled food market through acquisitions.

Greencore, which plans to develop the 400 acre former sugar factory in Mallow, Co Cork, today reported a 32% hike in pre-tax profits of €75.1m for the year to September 28, 2007.

Convenience foods company Greencore has agreed to sell its 50% shareholding in flour and oat miller Odlums to Origin Enterprises for €35m.

GREENCORE’S last interim results suggest the group is finally on a solid growth path.

THOSE who take a keen interest in the agri-sector could be forgiven for thinking that property was the new food, or should that be drug?

ISEQ-listed food and agribusiness company Greencore made a group operating profit of €76,427 for the year ending September 29, up from €74,684 last year.

MORE than 150 former Irish Sugar workers are to protest in Dublin on Monday over the refusal by their former employer to pay them a Labour Court agreed redundancy package.

THE unions representing Greencore workers are to serve strike action on the company later this week.

UNCERTAINTY surrounds the fate of Greencore as property developer Liam Carroll keeps his cards close to his chest about his future intentions for the group.

IT’S 12 weeks on and we still have not received proper redundancy payments from Greencore despite the fact our signed agreement says we’re entitled to them.

THE Government’s failure to use its ‘exceptional powers’ to protect the productive potential at Greencore’s sugar plants will mean the loss of major strategic assets for Carlow, Mallow and the whole country, according to Labour leader Pat Rabbitte.

THE row between Greencore and farmers over the €145 million EU compensation package for exiting sugar processing has taken a further twist as Minister of State at the Department of Finance Tom Parlon has backed the case for maximum EU compensation.

WITH so much momentum still driving the economy, it is easy to lose sight of the huge transition taking place in Irish agriculture.

THE row between Greencore and farmers over the €145 million EU compensation package for exiting sugar processing erupted again yesterday.

Food group Greencore has announced a jump of 14.3% in after-tax profits tax to €30.5m (pre-exceptionals) and said the company's future is now in convenience foods after this year's withdrawal from sugar processing.

GREENCORE has offered to look at any economic proposition for the location of biofuel production in Mallow, but has firmly ruled any direct involvement in the sector.

SUGAR beet farmers in the south have been disappointed in their efforts to secure an alternative use for the Mallow sugar plant due to close on Friday.

THE blame for the demise of the Irish sugar industry rested with Greencore, the Irish Farmers Association claimed last night.

The demise of the Irish sugar industry was tonight condemned as a catastrophe by unions and as a devastating body blow by beet growers.

JUST before the start of the Greencore annual general meeting in Dublin last Thursday, Philip Kinnane, whose family farm backed onto the Thurles sugar factory, said he believed we had seen the last of beet growing here.

Sugar beet growers today urged the Government to reject demands by Greencore management for millions of euro in compensation for the closure of the Carlow plant.

SHAREHOLDERS gather in Dublin tomorrow for the annual general meeting of Greencore Plc at a time when the group is at a crossroads.

BEET deliveries to Mallow Sugar Factory for this season’s processing campaign will end today with the future of the industry hanging in the balance.