Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary was paid almost €5,000 a day in pay by the airline last year after receiving a 55% increase in bonus pay.

Irish researchers who developed a groundbreaking cancer treatment which “shocks” tumours into absorbing massive doses of chemotherapy have won an innovation award.

Companies have been warned to tackle office cyberbullies or face large claims for damages from employees.

Ryanair has appointed the former secretary general of the Department of Transport, Julie O’Neill, to the board of Ryanair Holdings.

Successful Dragons Den contestant Sarah Nic Lochlainn of Aruna Sauces is among the nominees for this year’s Women Mean Business awards.

European trade unions said EU policies to create jobs had worsened working conditions and weakened the economy.

DECLAN CULLEN claimed the feature three-star class at the Johnson & Perrott Land Rover International Horse Trials in Ballindenisk, Co Cork, yesterday.

FOUR of the last five Cork county beef bull championships at Carbery Show have gone to Midleton breeder John O’Grady.

THERE was keen early season competition in the various horse and cattle classes at Bandon Show last Sunday.

Ryanair today sought permission to file a case against IFSRA (The Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority) for its failure to launch any investigation of what Ryanair believes was the blatant abuse by Aer Lingus of Irish Stock Exchange listing rules by the company to one large shareholder in the run up to the closure of Aer Lingus’s Shannon base.

A CONTROVERSIAL integrated ticketing system for public transport in Dublin is finally set to be in place by September 2009.

THE chairman of the Dáil Public Accounts Committee will today call on the Department of Transport to investigate the multi-million euro cost overrun associated with the new terminal at Cork Airport.

THE top civil servant at the Department of Transport has claimed she was “extremely disappointed” Aer Lingus failed to take on board the Government’s concerns that the opening of the airline’s Belfast base would lead to the cancellation of its Shannon-Heathrow service.

THE TAOISEACH’s media monitoring unit, which costs almost €400,000 a year to run, missed an Irish Examiner story in June which had serious implications for Shannon Airport.

DEPARTMENT of Transport secretary general Julie O’Neill will be asked to appear before a Dáil committee to answer questions about her department’s handling of Shannon Airport’s loss of its Heathrow slots, it has emerged.

The largest foreign investors in Ireland, in the high-tech, pharmaceutical and chemicals sectors, today set out why they believe Ireland remains a uniquely attractive location in which to do business.

LAST week, just as Transport Minister Noel Dempsey struggled to explain why he did not know what was going on in his department about Aer Lingus proposals for Shannon, the person blamed for the oversight — rightly or wrongly — found a ready-made source of comfort.

EMBATTLED Transport Minister Noel Dempsey last night insisted there was nothing wrong with his key official heading an investigation into her own failure to inform him of the looming Shannon crisis.

THE debacle over the “missing memo” in the Department of Transport would lead to ministerial resignation in most other countries, Labour leader Eamon Gilmore claimed yesterday.

Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey tonight came under pressure from Opposition parties and lobby groups over his controversial clampdown on learner drivers.

It was time to move on from the fall-out over Aer Lingus’s controversial cutbacks at Shannon, Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey said today.

SENIOR management at Aer Lingus raised concerns about the future of its transatlantic flights from Shannon in communications with the Department of Transport, it has emerged.

A FOUR-year-old brown gelding was the champion ridden hunter at Dungarvan Show for Co Limerick exhibitor Abbie Shannon. Binders’ Cove, a lightweight hunter, is by Colin Diamond out of Madonna Hill.

AQUILA, a five-year-old mare by Quiletto out of a Mr Lord mare, bred by Paul and Jan Turfery, Caheragh, owned by Brian Mangan, Fermoy, and ridden by Rose Marie Ahern, Carhue, Bandon, dominated the hunter classes at Clonakilty Show.

THE removal of barriers from tolls booths at the Westlink Toll Bridge on the M50 motorway will not happen for at least another five years, it emerged yesterday.

The Government is planning new laws to fine motorists if they speed through new hi-tech toll bridges without paying any money, it was claimed today.

THE levels of alcohol and drugs in the blood of drivers involved in fatal road accidents is being studied for the first time by the Department of Transport.

CHANGING the layout of the Red Cow Roundabout in Dublin to tackle its huge traffic congestion problems will cost in the order of €37 million.

STRIKE action at all three CIÉ companies remained a possibility last night as SIPTU refused to call off a stoppage planned for March 18.

TRANSPORT unions have warned they will bring bus and rail services to a standstill in weeks if the Government presses ahead with plans to break up CIÉ.

TRANSPORT Minister Seamus Brennan will be reminded of SIPTU’s mounting opposition to the break-up of Aer Rianta and CIÉ as members gather for the union’s bi-annual conference.

CIE UNIONS are to seek assurances from the Department of Transport that their concerns over the break-up of the company will be taken seriously by the Government.

CIÉ has received €2 billion in funding from the taxpayer in the past six years, the Taoiseach said yesterday.

TRANSPORT Minister Seamus Brennan is considering legal action against the

TRANSPORT Minister Seamus Brennan insisted yesterday he will be cleared by the two investigations into claims he left the airport authority, Aer Rianta, with an unpaid brandy and cigars bill for £5,000.

The Government tonight increased pressure on Aer Rianta to publish the results of its report into allegations a senior minister failed to pay a brandy and cigars gift bill.

TRANSPORT Minister Seamus Brennan must wait until tomorrow to learn the outcome of two separate inquiries into claims that he left unpaid brandy and cigars bills totalling €6,000.