New Zealand Prime Minister-elect John Key said Monday he had won enough support to form a new government by mid-November, after meetings with two small parties.

The Tánaiste has been asked to apologise for telling the Dáil that worker directors at Aer Rianta had agreed to the disposal of 40% of the company to the private sector.

INTENSE negotiations on a new national pay deal started yesterday, with transport unions on course for a head-on collision with the Government over the break up of Aer Rianta and CIÉ.

ANY split among SIPTU's public sector transport workers would be severely damaging to the union and ultimately impact on the public at large, union president Jack O’Connor warned last night.

THE confrontation between the Government and SIPTU over the break-up of Aer Rianta could result in the end of social partnership, the union’s president warned yesterday.

Flights out of Dublin Airport could face disruption within two weeks after trade unions voted for industrial action tonight.

THE prospect of industrial action crippling air, road and rail transport rose dramatically last night as SIPTU’s Aer Rianta negotiators walked out of talks with the Department of Transport.

ANGRY Aer Rianta unions look set to revert to strike action again today after they meet Department of Transport officials in Dublin.

THOUSANDS of air passengers whose flights faced disruption were last night granted a last minute reprieve, after Aer Rianta unions agreed to defer their strike action planned for today.