Following Cabinet discussions on the potential sale of Aer Lingus Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe has said the Government would seek answers from IAG over the future of Aer Lingus in coming days.

There are plenty of causes of road accidents. Fatigue, drunk driving, reckless driving, weather conditions, tailgating and many others.

Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe has said that he does not want to cut the government's subvention to Irish Rail any further.

Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe has renewed his call for planned strikes at Irish Rail to be called off.

Business groups in Kerry have begun a campaign to maintain Government support for the daily Kerry to Dublin air service.

The Transport Minister, Leo Varadkar, said he doesn't know if a new taskforce will have any success in ending a long-running dispute at Dublin Bus.

The Transport and Marine Minister has been urged to review all outdoor activity centres and draw up new safety standards following an investigation into a near-tragedy involving schoolchildren off the east coast last year.

Transport Minister has today Leo Varadkar defended a Fine Gael corporate fundraiser, saying that the law on political donations has not been changed yet.

Senior county council officials in Cork are to meet with Leo Varadkar, the transport minister, to impress on him the importance of building ring roads around Mallow to ease traffic gridlock.

THE Transport Minister must have the courage to resist the road lobby and toll the Jack Lynch Tunnel.

Ryanair and the Transport Minister are heading for a collision course after the budget airline branded Noel Dempsey and his department 'corrupt'.

AER Lingus must cut 800 jobs as urgent restructuring is needed at the airline, according to Bloxham Stockbrokers, which downgraded the airline yesterday.

Unions representing taxi drivers are due to hold talks with the Transport Minister today as part of their campaign for a freeze on the issuing of new licences.

DUBLIN Bus and Bus Éireann have been accused of taking the “soft option” in cutting staff numbers and axing services in response to falling passenger numbers.

THE Government was last night accused of engaging in a “cover up” to disguise its response to the Shannon crisis.

THE Labour Party has called for the resignation of the embattled Transport Minister over the communications breakdown that prevented the Government from making an early intervention in the Shannon controversy.

Three-time Taoiseach Bertie Ahern will be grilled by Opposition leaders in the new 30th Dáil this week.

IF Government commitment to balanced regional development has any meaning, it is crucial to counter-balance Dublin’s sprawl, now skewing development across the country.

Minister for Transport Martin Cullen has officially opened the new Ennis bypass in Co Clare today.

Following today's announcement of new road safety proposals by the Road Safety Authority to the Minister of Transport, Green Party Spokesperson on Transport, Eamon Ryan TD said today: "We welcome any measures that help reduce the number of tragic accidents on our roads.

The Minister for Transport has issued a statement strongly opposing the proposed takeover of Aer Lingus by Ryanair.

Latest figures show an 8.6% rise in trade in the second half of this year and new terminals are thought to be essential to prevent the ports getting too congested.

A major bus strike that threatened to leave thousands of commuters stranded across the country tomorrow has been called off.

WE fail everyday. We fail because we inure ourselves to it. We fail because we comfort ourselves with dodgy assumptions (Folks, if you think Ireland is a classless society, you are soooh not right).

Minister for Transport, Seamus Brennan today launched the Irish Aviation Authority's (IAA) new €83m Shannon Air Traffic Management (ATM) system.

LUAS may be located in Dublin, but it’s there for everybody to use and enjoy. For the world and his wife, in fact, if you follow the literal Irish translation.

Transport Minister has told the CIÉ group of unions that he wants to resume discussions on the planned break up of the company.

IRELAND will lose a multi-million-euro agricultural showcase unless an alternative 500-acre venue can be found for the world-class event in the next few days.

Labour Party leader Pat Rabbitte has withdrawn controversial remarks he made in the Dáil yesterday about Transport Minister Seamus Brennan.

Transport Minister Seamus Brennan has said a public-private partnership (PPP) remains his preferred way of financing Dublin’s proposed metro system.

IARNRÓD ÉIREANN must explain why it plans to spend €1 billion on a tunnel under the river Liffey after it emerged using an existing route under the Phoenix Park would cost €925m less.

A plane carrying 302 people, all military personnel, crashed in southern Iran tonight, killing all on board, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

Unions at CIE are to meet with Transport Minister, Seamus Brennan, later this afternoon to discuss proposed restructuring of the company.

I HAVE worked in CIE since 1960, and in all that time it has been a political football. Once again, in the wake of the recent SDG report on public transport, it looks as if Minister Seamus Brennan wants to kick CIE, but one must ask what benefit will this bring to the travelling public?

TRANSPORT Minister Seamus Brennan must wait until tomorrow to learn the outcome of two separate inquiries into claims that he left unpaid brandy and cigars bills totalling €6,000.

SISTER JOAN Bowles had been counting down the days to her niece's wedding, but yesterday her relations had to celebrate the marriage without her.

More than 15 months after an Air France Concorde crashed in a ball of flame, the world's only supersonic jetliner returned to the skies today - making its long-awaited commercial comeback during one of the worst slumps in aviation history.