A pregnant woman in her thirties has been charged with the murder of a two-year-old girl at an apartment in Elderwood Park, Boreenmanna Road on the southside of Cork city on July 5th.

Online accommodation booking company Hostelworld has said it has seen continued “softness” in demand over recent months.

It was just about to land in bookshops when Matt Cooper’s tome on Michael O’Leary encountered turbulence on the approach.

Prominent supporters of the proposed Cork-US flights have launched a targeted offensive on key US politicians in a bid to secure the service.

An “acute” shortage of hotel rooms in Dublin and “modest” international awareness of the Wild Atlantic Way are major threats to the success of Irish tourism this year.

Fáilte Ireland have launched a quality standard for quirky, innovative or unusual tourist accommodation like glamping, lighthouses, pods, and log cabins.

Ireland will see a 6-7% rise in visitor numbers next year, but could enjoy greater returns from tourism with more competitive airport charges, said Fáilte Ireland chairman Michael Cawley.

The number of tourists visiting Ireland is now back at pre-recession levels —with the last 12 months on a par with the second best year ever.

Record numbers of visitors from the US and Canada have helped make 2014 one of the best years yet for tourism in Ireland.

A leading UK-based shareholder advisory group has recommended investors vote against resolutions at the annual general meetings of Guinness parent company, Diageo, and Ryanair.

Stephen Rogers and Eoin English examine Cork Airport’s decline and its attempts to take off again

Up to €20m is to be spent on cleaning up Dublin's image in a bid to attract more tourists.

Ryanair’s deputy chief, Howard Millar, is to leave the company at the end of December — the second senior management figure to step down this year.

It was only pro-am day at Fota yesterday but already the support for Pádraig Harrington was palpable.

Ryanair has said that it would still “love” to continue growing its services at Cork Airport, but stressed that expansion is wholly reliant on the airport improving its commercial terms.

The outgoing deputy chief executive of Ryanair stated yesterday that the airline “is only scratching the surface” of its potential in Europe, stating that carrying 200m passengers in a single year “is very realistic”.

Ryanair has shelved plans to increase its services at Cork and Kerry airports, citing high airport charges as the reason.

Budget airline Ryanair has announced another batch of new routes out of the west of Ireland on the back of the travel tax being scrapped.

Ryanair has today confirmed that it will open three new routes from Knock to Eindhoven, Glasgow Prestwick & Kaunas from April 2014.

Shannon yesterday heralded the first big dividend from the budget announcement to abolish the €3 travel tax, when Ryanair announced eight new routes which will bring 300,000 additional passengers through the airport next year.

Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar has challenged more airlines to follow suit following the news that Ryanair is to add eight new routes to continental Europe from Shannon Airport today.

Ryanair is set to announce “a range of new routes” in the coming days to facilitate an extra 1m passengers as a result of the abolition of the air travel tax in the budget.

The Government's decision to abolish the €3 travel tax could create more than 1,000 jobs at Irish airports, Ryanair claimed today.

A Dublin man who falsely claimed over €23,000 in Jobseekers Allowance has been given a suspended sentence after the court heard he was trying to repay the money with his legitimate social welfare payments.

Ryanair has formally begun the process of beefing up its senior management team, which will include a specific new recruit to push the airline’s promised “softer” public image.

Ryanair will formally lodge its appeal against the ruling by Britain’s Competition Commission — for it to lower its near 30% stake in Aer Lingus to just 5% — in the coming weeks, with the airline hoping for a quick reversal.

Ryanair has defended its use of a photograph of Cork to promote flights to Dublin in a French newspaper — by claiming nowhere in the capital looked as nice.

The deputy CEO of Ryanair, Michael Cawley, will step down from his position to pursue other business interests next March.

Ryanair has increased its full-year profit guidance for the second time in nearly as many months, on the back of a strong set of third-quarter figures.

A Dublin man who falsely claimed more than €23,000 in jobseekers allowance is trying to pay back the stolen cash with his legitimate social welfare payments, a court has heard.

Ryanair will open a base at Krakow, Poland in April 2013, with two-based aircraft flying to and from Dortmund, Gothenburg, Manchester and Kos, it was announced today.

European regulators are reportedly preparing to object to Ryanair’s proposed €694m takeover of Aer Lingus.

Ryanair has significantly upped its full-year profit forecasts, following a better-than-expected 10% rise in first-half figures.

MICHAEL O’Leary is almost as well-known for shooting from the lip as he is for his cheap airfares.

Ryaniar's deputy chief executive is refuting claims that there's been an increase in the number of tourists coming here.

Ryanair is planning to buy a 25% stake in London’s third largest airport, Stansted, according to its deputy CEO, Michael Cawley, who said they were hoping to make a bid within months.

The Ryanair boss’s proposals to take over Aer Lingus have been knocked back on two occasions but he refuses to give up, and it’s unlikely he would go to so much bother without having a greater purpose in mind, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

Ryanair is seeking a free deal in a fresh proposal to Government to deliver 5 million passengers over the next five years at Dublin, Cork and Shannon.

Ryanair, Europe’s biggest discount carrier, said it would cut a further eight routes at Edinburgh Airport after failing to reach an agreement on fees with the terminal’s owner BAA.

Ryanair is to base four new Boeing 737-800 series aircraft in Budapest Airport opening up 31 routes out of the Hungarian capital in response to yesterday’s collapse of Malev Airlines.

RYANAIR is generating so much cash that it is on course to be totally debt free by the end of March — clearing €709 million of debt in 12 months.

Ryanair has announced a profit of €139m for the first quarter as traffic grew 18%.

PROFITS grew by 26% at Ryanair last year, but the airline warned of flat earnings ahead in the face of rising fuel costs.

RYANAIR has asked a High Court judge, Mr Justice Peter Kelly, not to hear an action by the airline on grounds of comments by the judge that Ryanair and the truth are “uncomfortable bedfellows”.