DEPARTING chief executive of the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA), Declan Collier is resigning tomanage an airport where passenger levels were 12% of those at DAA airports last year.

The Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) has reached agreement with the Lynxs Cargo Group, which proposes building a new cargo facility at Shannon airport.

EMIRATES airline will begin its first route to Ireland from the start of next year, with the airline seeing “strong potential” in the country.

The Emirates airline is to begin a new daily Dublin-Dubai service from January, it was announced today.

IRISH airports have had contrasting fortunes, with Dublin tumbling down an international ranking survey and Knock enjoying its busiest year to date.

Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) subsidiary Aer Rianta International (ARI) has signed a retailing contract with Yunnan Airport Group in China.

THERE were indications this week that we are moving towards a more sustainable society where the old, comfortable nudge-nudge corruption or the abuse of position will not be tolerated.

THE chairman of the Shannon Airport Authority has refused to discuss the recent controversy surrounding a proposed bonus payment to the chief executive of the Dublin Airport Authority, Declan Collier.

STRANGELY, the first thing mass communication empire Facebook wants you to do when you turn up at their HQ for a jobs launch is sign a non-disclosure form.

THE Taoiseach said it was “not good practice” that Declan Collier is on the remuneration committee of AIB following controversy over his €100,000 bonus as head of the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA).

The juxtaposition of many of the leading news stories of recent days should set alarm bells ringing in Dáil Éireann.

The Taoiseach has said it is not good practice for the chief executive of the Dublin Airport Authority to remain on the remuneration committee of AIB bank.

AS Leo Varadkar “cannot do anything” about “legitimate” pay rises for state company CEOs, one wonders why we need ministers at all.

THE Dublin Airport Authority and Bord Gáis paid out about €4 million in bonuses last year, it has emerged.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said said it is "high time" for anyone who is well paid in the semi-

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has insisted high earners will have to suffer pain along with everyone else after Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) chief Declan Collier was forced to give up his controversial bonus.

Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte has said that it is ridiculous for board members of semi-state bodies to persist in implementing pay packages that "aren't in the wildest dreams" of the average worker.

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

COMMON SENSE has prevailed in the row over the controversial bonus for Dublin Airport Authority boss Declan Collier.

The Chief Executive of Dublin Airport Authority, Declan Collier, has informed the Minister for Transport Leo Varadker, he will forego performance related pay in respect of 2010, approved by the company.

The Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar has confirmed that he will not reappoint the members of the Dublin Airport Authority unless they comply with the new salary cap for chief executives of State bodies.

The Transport Minister Leo Varadkar has said he will not reappoint several members of the board of the Dublin Airport Authority next year, unless the organisation's Chief Executive forgoes bonus payments for last year.

The Fianna Fáil Leader Michéal Martin is echoing calls from the Transport Minister, Leo Varadkar, for the Dublin Airport Authority to stop a bonus payment to its Chief Executive, Declan Collier.

DUBLIN Airport Authority boss Declan Collier has refused to confirm whether he intends holding on to or relinquishing the €100,000 bonus he was awarded last year — at a time when payment of bonuses had been halted by the Government.

TRANSPORT minister Leo Varadkar has reacted angrily to the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) planning to award its chief executive Declan Collier, a €100,000 performance- related bonus for last year.

The Transport Minister Leo Varadkar has written to the Dublin Airport Authority asking it to stop the payment of a bonus to Chief Executive Declan Collier.

Less than an hour remains before the US President Barack Obama touches down in Ireland.

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.

The public interest directors at AIB who approved the €3m golden handshake to former boss Colm Doherty have been branded "dummies" this evening.

FINANCE Minister Brian Lenihan has admitted that the chief executives of banks in which the Government has a major shareholding are unlikely to be subject to the new €250,000 salary cap on public sector workers.

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.

“A BIG change in banking culture” was what Finance Minister Brian Lenihan promised back in February 2009 when a major bailout was announced.

FINANCE Minister Brian Lenihan’s decision to shelve a review of semi-state bosses’ pay sends out “the wrong signal”, a Fianna Fáil TD has said.

THERE have been suggestions that the recession is over, but it is very hard to find anyone in business or on the street who believes this, other than those who ridiculed the suggestion that we were heading for a crash in the first place.

FINANCE Minister Brian Lenihan quietly shelved a review of the pay of semi-state bosses despite the fact that some of them enjoy packages worth €500,000 a year.

THE second NAMA business plan explodes many myths expounded when it was originally advocated.

The chief executive of the Dublin Airport Authority received a bonus of €51,000 last year, even though the DAA recorded losses of €13m.

THE European Commission has given airlines the green light to seek state aid to help meet the cost of the estimated €2.5 billion compensation bill incurred during the recent volcanic ash cloud crisis.

The recent closure of Irish and European airspace due to the Icelandic volcano cost airports in Ireland €8m, according to the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA).

Ryanair has expressed its fury today after Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey announced that the Dublin Airport Authority is to operate the new Terminal 2 at Dublin Airport.

STAFF at the country’s three main airports are to suffer pay cuts of up to 12% as the Dublin Airport Authority tries to reduce its payroll costs by €38 million per year.