An independent inquiry will be established following an unprecedented systems failure at the UK’s national air traffic control centre, the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has said.

The chaos that hit UK airports was clearing last night - but 38 flights have been cancelled at Heathrow this morning.

In the past, Garda commissioners became implicated in what were largely political controversies, writes Ryle Dwyer

Future Government rail plans were thrown completely off track today after ministers scrapped a deal which would have seen Richard Branson’s train company lose its West Coast franchise

Approval was today given for a by-election in Belfast West after Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams stepped down to join the Dáil.

An elderly man who fraudulently claimed almost €140,000 of a dead acquaintance’s pension for 23 years is to pay back An Post €40 a week.

THE country’s co-ops yesterday called for a pay freeze because of the severe slowdown in economic activity and poor outlook for 2009.

ARRABAWN will be one of the few farmers’ co-ops to focus on growth in their agri-trading division during 2008.

ARRABAWN Co-op generated an operating profit of €4.1 million in 2007 against €836,000 in the previous year, the society’s annual general meeting was told in Nenagh, Co Tipperary, yesterday.

David Cameron tonight promised radical change for the British Conservative Party after being overwhelmingly elected its fourth leader since Labour came to power in 1997.

SALES at Arrabawn Co-op increased marginally to €126.8 million in 2004 from €125.7m in 2003, the firm disclosed yesterday.