Passenger figures at Shannon are up 15% for the first six months of the year according to the latest figures for the airport.

Ryanair have announced nine new routes from its Frankfurt Hahn base.

THERE was drama at the end of a sensational women’s 10,000m walk at the European junior championships in Kaunus yesterday when Yelena Ladanova of Russia, after finishing streets ahead of everyone, discovered she had been disqualified.