Ireland’s maritime training college will sign a landmark €2m training contract with one of the world’s largest shipping companies in Texas today.

Aer Lingus is celebrating 75 years in the air next Friday. Pól Ó Conghaile looks at the special role the iconic airline has played in the history of the state

Extraditing a man to France for questioning over the murder of a film-maker in Ireland would have implications for every citizen in the Irish State, it was claimed today.

Six million contraband cigarettes have been seized after an international surveillance operation.

FUNDING pressures on the State caused by the banking crisis may not be as severe as first thought, because the Government no longer has to carry the full burden of recapitalising the country’s banks.

The Rape Crisis Centre has welcomed the conviction of a Sligo man for the rape of his wife, the first such conviction in the history of the Irish State.

A US firm has won the biggest military contract in the history of the Irish State.