TWO separate investigations are under way following the death of a 27-year-old man in a septic tank in East Cork.

Flights from George Best Belfast City Airport to Stansted are set for take-off again after a budget airline announced it was taking on the discontinued route.

Five live crabs have been found inside a Chinese woman’s suitcase at Belfast International Airport.

A soldier injured in a dissident republican shooting in the North which killed two colleagues has been discharged from the army on medical grounds.

RYANAIR launched an attack on Belfast City Airport yesterday saying delays to the extension of its runway could result in job losses and less route expansion.

Up to 500 new jobs and more air routes to Europe are being jeopardised by the delay to the George Best Belfast City Airport runway extension, Ryanair claimed today.

Budget airline easyJet called today for a public inquiry into controversial proposals to extend the runway at George Best Belfast City Airport.

TUCKED into a corner of the salubrious cul de sac Douglas estate of Ballincurrig is Gartan, a much-improved upon semi-d with four bedrooms.

THE MAYOR of Shannon has called on Aer Lingus to pull some of their flights from Cork and Dublin airports to help boost Shannon Airport which is reeling from the loss of its Heathrow flights.

Irish airline Aer Lingus is to open eight new routes from Belfast International to London and Europe.

UP TO 1,000 jobs could be created if Aer Lingus proceeds with plans to make Belfast International Airport its British hub, it was claimed yesterday.

A CHARTER aircraft with 148 passengers and crew came close to landing at a private, unlicensed airfield outside Belfast instead of at Aldergrove airport last July, it has emerged.

A postman has been held up at gunpoint by a gang of armed robbers in the North.

The Rev Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionists were today under fire after it emerged their leadership attended a dinner in Dublin with leading businessmen from the Republic of Ireland.

Belfast International Airport operator TBI said trading for the second half of the year had been in line with expectations as low-cost travel to domestic and European destinations continued to grow.

THERE were no ‘Yankee Go Home’ signs on display in Belfast last night, but the welcome was far from warm for US President George W Bush as he touched down for his first visit to Ireland.

Security forces in the North have sealed off the Co Down village of Hillsborough today ahead of a visit to the area by US President George W Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Belfast International Airport could be used as a back door to launch a terrorist attack on Britain, it was claimed today.

A flight from Belfast to London was forced to make an emergency landing after developing technical difficulties.

The only realistic explanation for the RAF Chinook helicopter disaster on the Mull of Kintyre in June 1994, in which 29 people died, was the finding of pilots’ negligence reached by the reviewing officers of the RAF Board of Inquiry, the House of Lords was told today.

British Army technical experts have discovered 40lb of home-made explosives in a car abandoned in a car-park at Belfast International Airport.

British Army bomb disposal experts have carried out two controlled explosions on a car abandoned today at Belfast International Airport.

A man killed in a road accident in the North was a Scottish soldier, police confirmed today.