A 93-year-old widower has broken his own record to become the world’s oldest wing walker.

The Dalai Lama has arrived in Derry to begin a two day visit to the UK City of Culture.

CANADIAN billionaire Galen Weston has donated thousands of euro towards the restoration of an RAF Spitfire dug from a Co Donegal bog earlier this summer.

THE wreckage of a Spitfire aircraft including its Rolls Royce engine was dug from a peat bog yesterday 70 years after it crashed in neutral Irish territory during the Second World War.

The North's main airport, Belfast International, as well as George Best City and City of Derry Airport are at a standstill after the biggest snowfall in living memory has caused chaos.

A gritting lorry driver suffered cuts to the face when his window was smashed by stone-throwers in Co Derry.

Air passengers faced further misery today as volcanic ash forced restrictions in Irish airspace once again.

THE crisis which has brought Ireland’s airlines to a standstill could last for days, the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) has confirmed.

A dual carriageway between Derry and City of Derry Airport should be completed in 18 months, it was announced today.

THE start of the thaw is on the way as freezing and snowy conditions of the past week near an end.

Jobs at the loss-making City of Derry Airport are under threat, it was revealed tonight.

Police in the North are continuing to question a 40-year-old man following a three-vehicle crash in Co Derry.

The go-ahead was given today for the building of a new dual carriageway from Derry to the City of Derry Airport, at a cost of nearly £50m (€63.4m).

LOCATED on the Atlantic seaboard in the extreme north-west, Donegal Airport is the country’s most remote regional airport with the smallest catchment area of any in the state.

An Aer Arann flight from Donegal to Dublin has been diverted to Derry today because of a technical fault with its engine.

The gap between health spending in the North and England is set to widen if current budget proposals at Stormont stand, a power-sharing minister warned today.

An inquiry is underway in the North to establish why an airplane sank into tarmac on a runway at the City of Derry Airport.

Aviation experts were commissioned today to undertake an independent review into the circumstances surrounding the closure of City of Derry Airport when the Civil Aviation Authority suspended its licence amid safety fears.

An independent inquiry into the four day closure of City of Derry Airport over safety concerns was ordered tonight.

The City of Derry Airport will re-open from midnight tonight after aviation officials approved fresh passenger safety measures.

The City of Derry Airport is set to remain closed until next week at the earliest after being closed on Thursday night due to safety fears.

Flights to and from the City of Derry Airport have been suspended because of safety fears.

THE British civil aviation authorities have temporarily shut down the City of Derry Airport grounding all commercial flights as and from today.

If accepted, the new financial package for the North announced today is to fund biggest-ever cross-border project to date - a major motorway to Donegal and Derry.

The Irish Government could be facing questions from the European Commission about the financial relationship between Ryanair and the City of Derry Airport.

A PUBLICLY owned airport handed over at least £1.25 million (€1.86m) of ratepayers’ money to promote airline giant Ryanair, it was revealed yesterday.

City of Derry airport has handed more than €1.8m of ratepayers' money to promote airline giant Ryanair, it was revealed today.

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.

The ISEQ index of Irish shares ended the day on a high note gaining 25.95 points to 89260.09.

A publicly-owned airport in the North has been ordered to disclose its secret deal with Ryanair, it emerged today.

Closing arguments get under way today in a landmark case over a secret deal between Ryanair and the North's only publicly-owned airport.

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

THE bungling pilot who landed his passenger jet at the wrong airport on Wednesday has been grounded, Eirjet confirmed yesterday.

The British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) is urging the Co Clare-based airline Eirjet not to sack the two pilots who mistakenly landed a passenger plane at a military base in the North yesterday.

A BLUNDERING pilot was last night facing the sack after landing his passenger jet in a military airfield by mistake.

A pilot was questioned today after he landed his passenger jet in a military airbase by mistake.

The economies of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland must forge closer links if they are to prosper in an increasingly competitive world marketplace, a British Cabinet Minister claimed today.

A WET field at the bottom of a lane in Donegal seemed an unlikely spot to find a half-dozen All Blacks during the week. Michael Moynihan reports.

The Government is convinced that raids carried out by the Gardaí were based on solid information that they were uncovering money from December’s £26.5m (€38m) Northern Bank raid, Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern said today.

The number of passengers using Northern Ireland’s airports has more than doubled since 1990, it emerged today.

Ryanair is halving its daily service between City of Derry airport and London, and warned tonight it may scrap it altogether.

Regional airline Aer Arann has announced two new services from City of Derry airport.

Aer Arann, Ireland's regional airline, has announced the introduction of two new services from City of Derry Airport to Manchester and Birmingham.

Ryanair passed the 35m passenger landmark at Dublin airport this month since flights began 20 years ago.