SHANNON airport is operating with both hands behind its back and in the impossible situation of having to compete against its employer, the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA), and the newly opened T2.

Defence Minister Willie O’Dea is to pay his first official visit to Irish troops serving in Chad next week.

THE Labour Party claimed last night that Tánaiste and Justice Minister Michael McDowell must share the political responsibility for a horror gun attack that injured a five-year-old boy.