Dublin Airport set a new record for traffic as it welcomed 32.9 million passengers last year.

Aer Lingus has announced a direct flight from Dublin to Rhodes in time for Summer 2020.

Margaret Thatcher accused the Irish Government of doing nothing to help extradite a priest who allegedly worked for the IRA, state papers have revealed.

Thompson Holidays has the Greek destinations of Rhodes, Kos and Zakynthos on offer in August at decent prices.

Pre-summer escapes are currently available at Castlemartyr Resort. 

Greece’s coastguard says it has rescued 922 people over the past three days as they attempted to reach eastern Aegean islands clandestinely from the nearby Turkish coast.

Greece’s coast guard has rescued 922 people over the past three days as they attempted to reach eastern Aegean islands from the nearby Turkish coast.

I PASSED through Los Cristianos in southern Tenerife last week on my way to my youngest son’s wedding on the island of La Gomera. 

Pól Ó Conghaile has just been named the Travel Extra Travel Journalist of the Year, awarded for “his exceptional body of work” including articles written for the Irish Examiner and the National Geographic.

Singer Frank Sinatra was the great love of actress Mia Farrow’s life and could “possibly” be the father of her son Ronan Farrow, the actress said in an interview.

Greece's parliament has today approved a new international bailout deal, which will see the crisis-hit country receive an additional €172bn in rescue loans.

TRAILFINDERS have again linked with Etihad Airways to feature late deals to Malaysia, but interested clients need to be fast — bookings have to be made by tomorrow.

Ryanair today announced its first five routes from the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, to Barcelona (Girona), Dublin, London (Stansted), Milan (Bergamo) and Rome (Ciampino) from May onwards.

Ryanair has announced 17 new routes to the Greek holiday destinations of Kos, Rhodes and Thessaloniki from April 2010.

The Athens Geodynamic Institute says a strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 struck near the Greek island of Rhodes.

Five tourists injured when a cafeteria roof collapsed on the Greek holiday island of Rhodes, officials said.

The captain of a cruise ship that sank in the Aegean Sea has been charged with negligence.

A British frigate taking part in a Nato patrol helped rescue Romanian sailors today from a cargo ship stranded in as storm south of the Greek island of Carpathos, authorities said.

An earthquake of preliminary magnitude 4.8 shook the southern Greek island of Rhodes early today, causing no injuries or damage.

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A British man who killed an Irish teenage tourist during a bar brawl on the holiday island of Rhodes was jailed for 20 years today.

A plane carrying more than 200 British holidaymakers was forced to land mid-flight after smoke began pouring from an onboard oven.

Greek and Turkish rescue crews worked together today to search for possible survivors from a boat filled with illegal immigrants that went down in the Mediterranean Sea.

A 30-year-old Greek man forced his eyes out their sockets to protest against his arrest at Athens international airport, police said today.

THE EU should give up the idea of becoming a counterweight to the US in world affairs, Foreign Minister Brian Cowen will tell his colleagues today at a meeting in Greece.

THE ESB finally decided yesterday to close its defunct power plant at Rhode in Co Offaly next month and pay workers a voluntary severance package worth around €10 million.

MOBILE phone radiation may make cancer tumours grow more aggressively, according to new research.

FIFTEEN destinations are featured in the new Airtours Holidays brochure with the promise that families will be catered for as never before.

A strong earthquake shook the Aegean Sea holiday island of Rhodes today for the second time this month, but there were no reports of damage or injuries.