AFTER an entrepreneurial career spanning 66 years, businessman Michael Bowes has decided to retire from his current employment, heading up the Fernhill Hotel, on the edge of Carrigaline and 100 metres from where the new N28 road to Ringaskiddy is set to run.

As of last week, just 69 refugees from Italy and Greece have been relocated here, writes Michael Clifford

A blockade of lorries is causing chaos on the roads around Calais in a campaign for the Jungle migrant camp to be demolished.

Latest: Two British men have been remanded in custody charged with immigration offences after 18 Albanians were rescued from a sinking boat in the English Channel.

Ireland’s qualification for Euro 2016 has triggered a boom in the sale of campervans, as the Green Army prepares to travel en masse to France next year.

Building more permanent camps, together with the provision of work for migrants is an idea that’s going in the right direction, writes John Lloyd

Migrants in Calais are being warned Britain’s streets are “not paved with gold” as part of a new £7m (€10m) initiative.

The trade body representing Ireland’s freight transport operators has called on the Government to seek compensation from French counterparts for the losses members are suffering due to continuing disruption in Calais.

The number of migrants trying to get into the Eurotunnel terminal near Calais has fallen to as few as 100 a night, the operator has said.

I SPENT the last few days trading holiday stories with a friend of mine.

I think the port of Calais is 32 miles from Dover. The migrants at Calais are relentlessly testing the boundaries (literally) of the Channel Tunnel and the Port of Calais.

Good afternoon. Here’s everything you need to know from around the world this lunchtime.

French riot police sprayed migrants with a chemical irritant as they tried to storm the Channel Tunnel.

RIGHT NOW, as we speak, there is a little 11-year-old Afghan boy called Shafiq all alone in the migrant camp in Calais, writes Suzanne Harrington.

Security measures around the Channel Tunnel are to be stepped up after Britain and France agreed a package including extra private security guards, French police reinforcements, additional fences and more CCTV surveillance.

Britain’s prime minister, David Cameron, has drawn up plans to help France tackle a spike in attempts by migrants to enter Britain illegally via the Channel Tunnel, but warned there was no quick fix.

David Cameron was under mounting pressure last night after describing migrants trying to reach Britain as a "swarm".

The Irish Road Haulage Association is criticising the Irish government for not taking the lead in relaxing rules relating to hauliers and truck drivers, in light of the Calais migrant crisis.

DPP raises new concerns over publication of David Drumm’s statement; Cuthbert ‘stepping down with immediate effect’ as Cork senior football manager; Ryanair flight returns to airport minutes after departure to remove forgotten luggage; and Aer Lingus flight forced to swerve in take-off to avoid jet. Here’s today’s lunchtime irishexaminer.com round-up.

Irish truckers face being injured or killed as a result of the chaotic migrant situation in the French port of Calais.

A migrant has died on a freight shuttle trying to reach Britain, Channel Tunnel operator Eurotunnel said as it renewed calls to end the crisis in Calais.

Cross-Channel travellers faced another round of disruption in their journeys on the Channel Tunnel after migrants invaded the Eurotunnel terminal in France.

Thomas Cowderoy shows us around his 1975 Ford Mustang Mach 1.

Migrants were risking life and limb trying to clamber aboard UK-bound trucks in Calais, France, with some saying they will do whatever it takes to cross the Channel.

During last night’s ITV News a moped smashed into a pedestrian in the background of a live report from London.

During last night’s ITV News a moped smashed into a pedestrian in the background of a live report from London.

Eurostar says it plans a full service tomorrow after delays and cancellations struck for a second successive day.

Trains will resume running through the Channel Tunnel this evening following a lorry fire, Eurotunnel said.

Holidaymakers are facing hours of travel misery after all Eurostar trains were cancelled due to a lorry fire in the Channel Tunnel.

All Eurostar trains have been cancelled because of smoke in one of the cross-Channel tunnels, the company said.

Holidaymakers heading for the continent by ferry next year could pay up to 30% more because of new European Commission shipping rules, a leading cruise firm has suggested.

Britain’s Stephen Dillane and the Netherlands’ Bianca Krijgsman received the top acting prizes at the 42nd International Emmy Awards.

A sensational Grandmother Giant will walk the streets of Limerick from Friday, writes Jo Kerrigan

Hundreds of passengers have had to be evacuated from a broken-down train in the Channel Tunnel in an incident which has led to long delays to travellers.

Passengers had to be evacuated from a Eurostar service after smoke was seen coming from the train.

Kya deLongchamps explores all the fun of the fairs for the best bargain hunting experiences.

He may be the only one of Ireland’s legendary three O’s who won’t play in Twickenham tomorrow, but last night Ronan O’Gara was rugby’s undisputed lord of London.

It’s a Thursday night in trendy Shoreditch, in east London, and outside of one of the numerous cool-because-they-say-so pubs hidden away from the main street, there’s a queue to get in and see four lads from Ireland play loud rock music.

A morbidly obese Frenchman left stranded in Britain after being stopped from boarding a Eurostar train for safety reasons is due to finally return home.

Opera buffs should be well pleased this week with Ellen Kent’s Opera & Ballet International staging two legendary Verdi productions plus a Puccini from the Chisinau in Moldova.

Highlights include RTÉ documentaries on taxi passengers and nightshift workers.

Dozens of truckers had to be taken to safety after a fire on a lorry in the Channel Tunnel.