Ryanair’s third-largest shareholder Blackrock Inc reduced its holding in the carrier to below 5% just before the news that the airline had signed a deal to secure 175 new aircraft.

Micheal O’Leary’s company has acquired a Learjet 45 executive aircraft which has been registered in the Isle of Man.

A number of jarveys operating illegally in tourist town Killarney face legal action.

Analysts are not backing Ryanair to succeed in its Aer Lingus bid.

A lot of fingers in one pie, is how analysts are describing the complex issues surrounding the attempted purchase of Aer Lingus by Ryanair.

Aer Lingus has urged its shareholders not to take any action following Ryanair's latest takeover bid.

Ryanair has made a surprise cash offer to buy out Aer Lingus, just a day after Britain’s competition commission began a full investigation into Ryanair’s 29.8% holding in the airline.

Budget airline Ryanair reported a loss for the final three months of last year today after it was forced to cancel more than 3,000 flights.

AS a symbol of the effort required by the nation to get us through dire economic times, the Dublin City Marathon is a fitting metaphor.

Under-fire Tánaiste Mary Coughlan tonight agreed to meet Ryanair boss Micheal O’Leary to try to secure 300 jobs promised by the budget carrier.

Under-fire Tánaiste Mary Coughlan was tonight considering meeting Ryanair boss Micheal O’Leary to secure 300 jobs promised by the airline.

RYANAIR shareholders are in line for a €1 billion payout as the airline rules out a further Aer Lingus bid and hints it could slightly raise its full-year earnings forecast.

Ryanair today revealed further cuts to its winter flights and job losses blaming the Government’s €10 tourism tax for falling business.

FIANNA FÁIL and Fine Gael have dismissed Labour leader Eamon Gilmore’s call for a televised debate before next month’s elections.

PASSENGERS have told how they could feel intense heat coming through the floor of an aborted flight in Faro on Saturday night.

RYANAIR could be facing sanctions over its treatment of some Munster fans travelling to the Heineken Cup final in Cardiff on May 24.

AT Dublin airport very early one morning last week I heard a familiar voice calling passengers to the Ryanair London/ Stansted flight.

Former Labour leader Michael O’Leary, who has died in France, became alienated from politics, writes Paul O’Brien.

RYANAIR last night slated the decision by the Government to allow the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) to build the second terminal.