The Cabinet meets in Cork today as part of the Taoiseach's pledge to hold special meetings across the country.

Cork businesses have backed calls for a €12m stimulus package for the tourism industry in the wake of falling UK visitors following sterling’s post-Brexit vote slump.

Islamic State militants launched a new attack on the besieged city of Deir el-Zour today - in the most fierce fighting in a year, the Syrian government and opposition activists said.

Long views down over a valley just west of Cork City, overlooking the N71 Cork- Bandon Road by the city’s old ‘liberties’, come with this four-bed bungalow at Tulligmore, Ballinhassig.

The construction of Dublin Airport’s proposed €320m second runway may yet run into difficulty despite yesterday being given the green light.

Passenger numbers for Dublin Airport are soaring, with bosses predicting this will be ‘a record-breaking year’ for the facility.

A European air trade body has been asked to review its sampling procedures to include Cork Airport after its latest report showed Dublin was one of the fastest growing airports in Europe.

LAST October, Ryanair released their passenger figures for the summer period from April to September. 

An investigation has been launched after a plane with 52 people on board skidded off the runway after landing at an airport.

Material damage of benefit to al Qaeda, says Syrian military

Low-cost airline easyJet has secured a new 10-year deal with Luton Airport which could see it double in size at the site from four to nine million passengers a year.

Passenger number 20,000,000 this year has walked into the Arrivals Hall at Dublin Airport.

Syrian rebels are closing in on the country’s second largest airport, reportedly killing more than 40 soldiers and bringing them closer to what could be their biggest conquest since the beginning of the civil war.

More than 12,000 people marched on Saturday in support of the Save Waterford campaign, organised by a lobby group objecting to the possible downgrading of Waterford Regional Hospital.

Transport and Tourism Minister Leo Varadkar has confirmed that Shannon Airport is to be separated from the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA).

Bank of Ireland has put the future of Galway Airport in jeopardy by seizing €1.1m from its deposit account to offset loans, even though repayments were fully up to date, Galway Chamber has said.

PLANS for a multi-million euro themed adventure park beside Bunratty Castle and Folk Park are being pursued by Shannon Development.

Life in the New York area is returning to normal after Hurricane Irene left town and headed into Canada, leaving destruction in its wake.

HOW often have we heard that we need to be careful what we wish for? It might not really be what we want.

President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have sampled Guinness in Moneygall's Hayes' pub on their good-humoured visit to the Offaly village.

A MAN in his late 30s was undergoing assessment at Cork University Hospital (CUH) last night after he allegedly stabbed a garda, stole his garda jeep and drove it to Cork Airport, where he tore off his clothes and rammed several vehicles.

AT least 280 jobs are at risk in Galway, Waterford and Sligo airports.

Flybe have announced a new expansion from Ireland West Airport Knock by introducing a three-times-a-week service to Edinburgh in Scotland.

Dublin Airport battled to keep flights operating today as commuter traffic across Ireland was crippled by the big freeze for a fifth day.

THE Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) yesterday confirmed that Shannon Airport’s head of finance and corporate affairs, Mary Considine is to assume the role of airport director next month.

Soul singer Solomon Burke has died at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. He was 70.

Irish airline Ryanair has hit out at the Government’s controversial €10 travel tax today, saying that it has had a worse impact on Dublin Airport traffic than the recent ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano.

GREATLY increased activity in the Icelandic volcano, which has already cost the European airline industry more than €1.2 billion, has led to more flight restrictions in and out of six Irish airports today.

The Dublin Airport Authority is advising passengers of a taxi protest at the Airport this afternoon.

Oscar-winning film director Steven Soderbergh has begun shooting a new film on the streets of Dublin.

There are curtailments to some localised Dublin Bus services and some Bus Éireann services today but Dublin Airport is operating as normal.

Shannon Airport has today stated that it is in talks with Ryanair in relation to a possible extension of the airline’s existing five-year deal.

A Mongolian woman who was caught three times trying to smuggle cigarettes into the State has brought her baby son to prison with her while she serves a six-month sentence.

PART of a site which netted e27 million for an old folks charity three years ago is now to be off-loaded — most likely at a significant loss, by Edward Holdings’ developer Gerry Barrett, owner of Galway’s G Hotel.

ATTACKERS set off explosions at anti-government protest sites yesterday, wounding 51 people and raising fears of widening confrontations in Thailand’s worst political crisis that has strangled its economy and shut down its main airports.

Thailand’s main international airport cancelled all flights today as protesters thronged the complex in an effort to bring down the government.

The Court of Criminal appeal has halved the seven-year prison sentence imposed on a South African 'drug mule' and mother of three who was caught with almost €80,000 worth of cannabis in her suitcase at Dublin Airport.

At least two people died and 90 others were injured when a strong earthquake struck southwestern Greece today.

A winged stuntman has completed a daring 17km unaided flight over the west coast of Ireland, beating local plane times.

SHANNON is successfully managing the connectivity crisis triggered by the January 1 termination of the Aer Lingus Heathrow service, the airport director said yesterday.

Three "silly and stupid" Cork mothers who drove to Dublin on a "day out" to collect cannibis valued €140,000 have been jailed for various terms by Judge Frank O’Donnell.

A Surinam businessman who swallowed 100 pellets of cocaine to repay a debt loan to criminals has been given a seven year sentence by Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A 70-year-old British grandmother is facing life imprisonment after being convicted yesterday of the “honour killing” of her son’s wife who she murdered after luring her to India.

A Meath man who was told his €1,300 drug debt would be "cleared" if he went to Madrid to collect a package has been sentenced to four years for bringing cocaine into Ireland.