Business tourism is a burgeoning industry, worth €11.5m to the Cork economy in 2016. Pádraig Hoare hears from the Cork Convention Bureau that it can be worth infinitely more in the future

A secret code language, the power to upgrade seats, off-the-menu dining... being a flight attendant is more interesting than you’d think, reveals Brandon Presser

Norwegian Air boss Bjorn Kjos tells reporter Pádraig Hoare that Cork is strategically important and insists the airline has not abandoned plans for its Cork to New York route.

Norwegian Air says that it remains fully committed to starting Cork flights to the US in July despite its share price dropping sharply on the back of rising costs for its expanding transatlantic fleet.

A 2016 hat-trick of Derry senior titles for Slaughtneil – football, hurling and camogie, writes Paul Keane

Emiliano Grillo can breathe a sigh of relief after he feared he would miss out on the Olympic Games because an airline had lost his golf clubs.

No one quite does Christmas like New York, with a wonderful festive feel and some cracking bargains to boot, writes Vickie Maye. 

After going ’off grid’ for a week while on holiday, a re-energised Joyce Fegan asks why we need to be online all the time.

Singer Dolores O’Riordan is receiving ongoing medical treatment, a solicitor told a district court where she faces charges relating to an alleged air-rage incident at Shannon Airport last year.

The first transatlantic pilgrimage flight to Knock Shrine will touch down in Co Mayo tomorrow.

In the pioneering days of aviation, Ireland was the point of departure and arrival for all transatlantic air traffic. And although planes no longer refuel at Shannon, we are still prominent in the industry. Ryanair is the largest short haul airline in Europe and we are major players in airport retail and aircraft leasing, says Eoghan Corry

Shannon Airport has reported a 5% year-on-year increase in monthly passenger numbers for May.

The newly-arrived Irish J1 students have been a sight to behold in Queens and the Bronx over the last few days.

The DPP has directed that Dolores O’Riordan should face prosecution for alleged assault arising from an air rage-related incident at Shannon airport last November.

If you saw the Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch plough through the Arizona Cardinals defence for a late touchdown on Sunday night, then you had the opportunity to enjoy one of the highlights of this NFL season.

Hollywood stars and political leaders have angrily described the decision to pull a film about the assassination of the North Korean leader as a defeat for free speech.

Troubled Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan is under psychiatric care at an undisclosed location following her arrest after an air rage incident on an Aer Lingus flight on Monday, her mother has revealed.

Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan engaged in a chorus of singing and shouting from her jail cell at Shannon Garda station yesterday.

Dolores O'Riordan has been discharged from hospital and released without charge from garda custody following an alleged air rage incident.

Singer Dolores O’Riordan has been arrested in Shannon after an alleged assault on board a flight from New York.

PLANNING a weekend that keeps parents and young children interested and content can be a challenge. 

The Irish Medical Organisation says the HSE must do more to ensure Ireland is prepared for a case of Ebola.

Health officials in Australia have confirmed a 57-year-old woman is being tested for Ebola after returning to the country from Sierra Leone.

Limerick’s own Neil Cusack saw a lot in America, like hillbillies with shotguns chasing athletes, but for a moment he owned America too. This weekend 40 years ago he won the oldest and most celebrated city marathon in the world, a moment that brought a welcome sense of joy and colour and even the exotic to Ireland 1974

Brendan Behan died 50 years ago today. Alan O’Riordan remembers his flawed brilliance

Passenger numbers at Dublin Airport increased by 1.1 million to 20.2 million last year, it was announced today.

PRESIDENT John F Kennedy was assassinated 50 years ago today. The day after the assassination, an invitation was sent to the 37th Cadet Class of the Irish Defence Forces by Kennedy’s widow, Jackie, to perform a drill at his funeral in Washington.

A flight has been diverted to Shannon Airport overnight following an on-board 'air rage' incident.

THE past is a foreign country.

Caroline Kennedy was just 5 when her father kissed her goodbye and left the US for his visit to Ireland, but she has made that journey in her imagination many times since.

TWO of Ireland’s ancient clans — the FitzGeralds and the Kennedys — gave to the world the 35th president of the US, John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

An air passenger has been arrested after she refused to stop singing Whitney Houston’s hit ‘I Will Always Love You’ at the top of her voice.

Rachel Bilson was stopped by airport security because they thought she was too young to be travelling alone.

EVERY work of art starts with a blank canvas waiting for its muse. Sometimes the muse is just waiting to be found, boarding a flight to London from JFK, for example. Such was the case of fashion deity Kate Moss, who at 14-years-old was scouted by Storm Models founder Sarah Doukas en route from a family trip to Barbados. Little would the Croydon schoolgirl know that in her waifish 5” 7.5’ frame and gap-toothed smile lay the makings of the world’s next supermodel, the face of a new generation and the poster girl for its attendant woes.

An unruly passenger tried to headbutt the captain of a transatlantic aircraft that was forced to divert to Shannon airport yesterday.

Then we said goodnight to Broadway

Superstorm Sandy has revealed a skeleton which may date back to Colonial times, police in New Haven, Connecticut, said today.

US President Barack Obama will travel to New Jersey later, to assess the damage caused by superstorm Sandy.

American Airlines has announced plans to begin a new route between Dublin and JFK airport in New York.

One World Trade Center is a fitting tribute to 9/11 victims, John Riordan reports from New York

A child stowaway making it from Manchester to Rome may seem a peerless feat.

The fact that Etihad’s energetic chief executive is showing interest in our one-time national carrier spells good news at a time when Ireland’s economy is in rebuilding mode, writes Kyran Fitzgerald