Whatever happens on and off the field, the shape of the glass will have definitely changed by the time the green army transports itself north from Bordeaux morphing from wine glass to something broader and more frothy.

“You should go,” the man said. “You should go now. Russian and Slovakian hooligans are on their way here now and you must leave this area for your own safety.”

Ryanair is battling lower fares in the first months of its financial year, weighed down by French air-traffic controller strikes and by travellers’ concerns about a future terrorist incident following last month’s bombings in Brussels.

Ryanair flights from Dublin to Brussels' Zavantem Airport will not resume until May, despite the airport reopening.

Belgium’s chief prosecutor yesterday named two brothers as Islamic State suicide bombers involved in the most deadly attacks in Brussels’ history.

Dublin Airport is to revise its taxiway system following an incident in which two Ryanair planes clipped wings with each other at Dublin Airport last year.

Questions remain over what happened the night European Affairs Minister Dara Murphy had two gardaí bring him, his wife, and driver from rural Cork to Dublin Airport after his car broke down.

Thirteen people have been detained in Belgium and two in France in an anti-terror sweep following a gunfight in which two suspected terrorists were killed.

Alert status raised to second highest level amid fears ‘operational cell’ about to mount major attack

Belgian security forces killed two terror suspects in a fierce shoot-out in the eastern city of Verviers foiling a major attack against police buildings.

Ryanair has been ordered to repay €500,000 to a small German airport because it was an illegal state subsidy, according to the European Commission.

Ryanair has predicted that as much as 30% of its customer base will be made up of business travellers within the next five years.

Flying into a storm at Belgian airports

You gotta larf. The only other option is to cry, to look ahead to next summer’s World Cup with a knowing dread and to what will, on all recent form, be another public bout of self-flagellation on the part of the England football team, its supporters and a media that feeds off the national XI like a shoal of sharks.

Belgian media say that a small tourist plane has crashed near Brussels, killing five people, three of them children.

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Ryanair has called on the Government to review its policy on travel arrangements for civil servants after it emerged only a fraction of more than €6m spent on air travel last year was with budget airlines.

An incident on Wednesday where a Ryanair flight was forced to make an emergency descent over the Swiss Alps was the second such incident involving the company in as many months.

Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary said he has been approached by companies interested in buying the State’s 25% share in Aer Lingus.

Ryanair Holdings has lost a court challenge that may have forced Alitalia’s owners to repay a €300m loan from the Italian government.

Ryanair is annoyed that the European Commission doesn’t use the airline to get its staff from A to B, but maybe Michael O’Leary’s caustic insults and failure to acknowledge his company’s flaws is not the best way to court its custom, writes Europe Correspondent Ann Cahill

Ryanair is in the firing line once again as the European Commission announced fresh investigations into illegal state aid to airports to which they fly.

All 166 passengers were offloaded from a Ryanair plane after a number of travellers became disruptive in a row over outsize baggage fees, it was revealed today.

A ROW over outsized baggage led to an oversized problem for Ryanair after 100 passengers mutinied on a flight departing a holiday island.

Air passengers faced severe disruption on flights to and from Spain today because of a 24-hour general strike by Spanish workers.

Ryanair has announced that it will open one new route from Barcelona (El Prat Airport) to Fuerteventura and will increase frequencies on nine other routes to Brussels (Charleroi), Cagliari, Dusseldorf (Weeze), Edinburgh, Gran Canaria, Milan (Bergamo), Paris (Beauvais), Rome (Ciampino) and Venice (Treviso) from November 2010.

FORMER finance minister and European Commissioner Charlie McCreevy has been cleared by the EU to join the board of Ryanair.

Wolves have Kevin Doyle, Matt Jarvis, Stephen Ward and Marcus Hahnemann available for Sunday’s local derby at Birmingham.

Former world number one Justine Henin has received a wild card to the Medibank International Sydney, tournament organisers announced today.

Budget airline Ryanair has confirmed that it will open 10 new routes from Fuerteventura.

Ryanair today announced eight new routes from Brussels and Dusseldorf to destinations in Europe.

Justine Henin has played down her chances of emulating Kim Clijsters’ spectacular return to grand slam tennis.

Ryanair today announced that it will open four new routes to and from Bordeaux from December 17.

Former world number one Justine Henin will make her return to tennis at the Brisbane International in January.

IRISH people living in Brussels are being offered free flights home to canvass in the referendum campaign.

MORE than 5,000 French dairy farmers have withheld milk for the past week in protest at low prices, according to the European Milk Board. Farmers in Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg have also held back milk.

Low-fare airline Ryanair effectively pulled out of Manchester airport today in a row over airport charges that will result in up to 600 jobs being lost.

Ryanair is to open seven new routes in the autumn from Rygge airport (50kms from Oslo) and four new routes from Oslo (Torp).

Cocaine, cannabis, cash and cigarettes worth over €400,000 have been seized at Dublin Airport.

RYANAIR has won a landmark case confirming it can conclude deals with state-owned airports that give it highly preferential rates and conditions.

Ryanair, today announced that it has filed legal proceedings for damages against French trade union, Confederation General de Travail (CGT).

Ryanair tonight slammed a new European Commission investigation into its operations as “spurious and baseless”.

IF the announcement by Aer Lingus that it is ending its Shannon-Heathrow service from next year is genuine, and is not a dangerous and cynical negotiation ploy on behalf of the national carrier, then the consequences for the Shannon region and the entire west of Ireland will be devastating.