A £2.5m retail and fuel forecourt is to be built near Belfast International Airport.

On a day that summer forgot, with grey skies and torrential showers, Belfast International Airport is buzzing with people departing for sunnier climes.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan says a hard border between the Republic and Northern Ireland is “not a runner” in the wake of Brexit.

Europe “walked away” from Ireland during the financial crisis the Dáil has heard. Former Fianna Fáil junior finance minister Dara Calleary yesterday questioned whether Irish citizens would choose to remain in the EU if a referendum were to be called here.

The 50th anniversary of George Best’s debut for Manchester United — as a 17-year-old against West Brom on September 14, 1963 — has been marked by the publication of yet another biography of the Belfast legend.

Ryan McKane was only 10 at the time but can still remember his parents having an angry discussion over what should happen next.

Aer Lingus has confirmed that it is in talks with George Best Belfast City Airport.

ULSTER’S latest signing arrived at Belfast airport yesterday with a confident pep in his step.

Aer Lingus said this morning that it is experiencing some disruption to its services today due to severe weather conditions across continental Europe.

A bomb found in a car at Belfast International Airport had been there for almost a year.

The PSNI has confirmed a device found at Belfast International Airport yesterday was a bomb.

Scores of passengers left stranded after two de-icing machines broke down at George Best Belfast City Airport will be booked on to the next available flights, a spokeswoman said today.

A 26-year-old north Dublin criminal has been jailed for 11 years for the manslaughter of an Estonian man attacked as he sat with his girlfriend watching planes take off from Dublin airport.

A Co Down convicted drug dealer has had over €40,000 of his money seized by the State after Judge Katherine Delahunt said she was satisfied it represented the proceeds of crime.

A £10m (€11.33m) redevelopment of Belfast International Airport aimed at speeding up the process of getting passengers from check-in to departure gate was announced today.

Fire and ambulance crews were scrambled after an alert on board a jet bound for Belfast International Airport from Murcia, Spain, this afternoon.

The George Best Belfast City Airport has been sold for nearly four times what its owners paid just five years ago, it was announced today.

Cocaine with an estimated street value of £20,000 (€24,652) was seized at Belfast International Airport, officials said today.

IF recent events showed a week can be a long time in politics, then a decade can be an eternity.

Eircom today beat off competition from British Telecom to win a hi-tech €100m contract in the North's civil service.

One of the North’s air links with London is being dropped at the end of October, it was announced yesterday.

Part of Belfast International Airport was flooded today after being hit by a freak thunderstorm.

Politicians in the North are vowing to do whatever they can to get Aer Lingus to choose Belfast Airport as its new British hub.

A multi-million euro business park next to Belfast International Airport was launched today.

Passengers in Belfast’s two airports were today forced to make alternative travel plans as flights were cancelled following the UK terror alert.

A MISSED opportunity. That is how Cork’s All-Star full-back Diarmuid O’Sullivan sees this weekend’s NHL game against Down. Not just this game either, all League games where the Mournemen have to travel.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern tonight described a scathing attack on President Mary McAleese by Democratic Unionist leader Rev Ian Paisley as immature.

International airport ground handling business Swissport was today acquired for €646m by Spanish company Ferrovial.

An 11-year-old girl has died after the car she was travelling in crashed near Fahan in Co Donegal this morning.

A plane was cordoned off at Belfast City Airport and two workers taken to hospital today after a mercury spillage.

COMPETITION among airlines offering flights to Spain intensified yesterday with Easyjet announcing it would begin flights out of Belfast Airport to Alicante and Malaga.

The sale of Belfast City Airport by its cash-strapped Canadian owner was expected to be announced today.

The sale of Belfast City Airport by its cash-strapped Canadian owner was poised to be announced tonight.

Belfast City Airport’s Canadian owners have announced plans to sell the facility.

Police in the North have declared a security alert at Belfast International Airport following a bomb warning at around 3.30pm today.

Belfast International Airport has been given the green light to develop a massive business park adjacent to the airport with the potential to generate 2,000 jobs, it announced today.

British Airways executives have agreed to cut their pay by up to 15% in a move to help the airline through ‘‘difficult times’’ in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in the United States.

The UUP has called for better security at Belfast International Airport following yesterday's discovery of a massive car bomb there.

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.