The prospect of glorious sunshine this weekend helps kick off a summer of weekend festivals and events that extend from Baltimore to Charleville and Youghal to Cork City and Clonakilty.

A survivor of the Manx2 plane crash is planning to cycle from Belfast to Cork to raise funds for a children’s’ cancer charity in the city that saved his life.

For Laurence Wilson and the other survivors of last year’s plane crash tragedy, Friday will be a day of mixed emotions.

THE family of the co-pilot killed in the Manx2 flight which crashed at Cork airport in February claim they still have had “no contact” from the company which also ignored a request to pay to bring his body home.

AN Isle of Man politician wants his parliament to clarify the status of virtual airline Manx2, one of the companies at the centre of the Cork Airport crash probe.

A preliminary report into a plane crash that killed six people and injured six more will be published today.

Manx2 has ended its service between Belfast and Cork just over a fortnight after one of its flights crashed killing six people.

A SURVIVOR of the Cork Airport crash has revealed how thinking of his wife and children helped him through the horrendous moments after impact.

Full services resumed at Cork Airport today after the plane crash that killed six people, as the chairman of Manx2 airline insisted both pilots were fully qualified.

QUESTIONS surrounding the circumstances of Thursday’s Cork Airport tragedy remained unanswered last night after the mother of a pilot on the doomed flight revealed it was one of her son’s first as captain.

TWO of the six survivors from the Cork Airport tragedy are still in Cork University Hospital’s (CUH) intensive care unit after suffering serious injuries during the crash.