Budget airline Norwegian has confirmed that it will not resume its transatlantic flights from Cork or Shannon this year.

A Brittany Ferries customer whose sailing to Cork was cancelled believes he was the victim of "shoddy treatment" after the company said it would not compensate him for the extra expense of travelling to another port to get home with a rival carrier.

A Brittany Ferries customer has accused the company of “screwing over” customers who will incur extra expense as a result of its decision to cancel sailings from Cork to France and Spain this weekend.

Some 5,000 ferry passengers are facing disruption over the next two weekends following confirmation that several Brittany Ferries’ sailings from Cork and the UK to France and Spain have been cancelled over the next two weekends.

Almost 1,500 passengers have been hit by a ferry fault which has forced the cancellation of Brittany Ferries’ sailings from Cork to France and Spain this weekend.

A number of scheduled sailings between Cork and mainland Europe have been cancelled by Brittany Ferries.

A trip to Cantabria and Asturias reveals Green Spain, a little known secret worth exploring, writes Rita de Brún.

January is the month many of us plan our summer holidays so this week I want to suggest two destinations with a wine focus.

Ryanair needs a leader who can communicate to people what the airline can do for them, not just what it can’t, writes Victoria White

Brittany Ferries is trying to help people who booked with Irish Ferries WB Yeats, but may not be able to accommodate many because they are nearly full for July and August.

An army of Leinster rugby fans set sail from deep in Munster territory yesterday on the inaugural voyage of the first direct ferry link between Ireland and Spain.

There’s a lot left to be decided on the pitch, but it could be advantage Leinster in the stands if there is an All-Ireland Champions Cup final.

Brittany Ferries have announced a new route from Cork into northern Spain.

Ryanair has announced extra flights on 40 different routes from Cork, Dublin, Knock and Shannon airports for summer 2018.

Ireland has been used as a transit base to smuggle at least 6,000 Ukrainians into Britain over the past two years, according to Spanish police who have smashed a gang which supplied them with fake Polish passports.

Telefonica, moving forward with a sale of stock in its infrastructure business as it seeks to pare debt, could do the same with its British wireless unit O2 this year if market conditions are favourable, chairman Jose Maria Alvarez-Pallete said.

The holiday plans of thousands of people have been thrown into disarray after technical problems forced the cancellation of this weekend’s sailings of Brittany Ferries flagship Pont-Aven vessel between Cork and France.

Whenever The Menu finds himself down in his cups, gloomily pondering the future of the planet, it is invariably an encounter with youth that restores his moral equilibrium and faith in humanity.

Joe McNamee ventures to the provinces of Cantabria and Asturias in North Western Spain where he swops the sun, sea and sangria familiar in the south of the country for some sun, sea and sidra.

The three 2012 Olympic veterans all qualified for Rio 2016 at the ISAF Sailing World Championships in Santander yesterday.

Ireland qualified for the Laser Radial event for the Rio 2016 Olympics after Annalise Murphy finished the ISAF Sailing World Championship at Santander yesterday.

Irish sailor Annalise Murphy has qualified for the 2016 Olympics after competing in Santander in the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships.

Ireland’s fortunes could hardly have been more mixed in the two Laser single-handed classes on the opening day of the ISAF Sailing World Championships in Santander yesterday, as the hunt for a place at Rio 2016 heats up.

Ireland’s Dan Martin went desperately close to snatching a stage win on the 13th stage of the Vuelta A Espana as victory went to Spaniard Daniel Navarro, who was rewarded for a daring late attack.

Ireland’s silver medallist pairing of Ryan Seaton and Matt McGovern are still coming to terms with their display the ISAF World Cup in Hyeres, France on Saturday.

Racing Santander players refused to play last night’s Copa del Rey clash with Real Sociedad in protest over unpaid wages.

Racing Santander’s Copa del Rey clash with Real Sociedad was suspended last night after the home players refused to play, having not been paid for several months.

WORLD Wildlife Fund president for Spain, King Juan Carlos, was ‘outed’ early last year for hunting elephants in Botswana.

Rory McIlroy’s official unveiling with sports giant Nike took on Academy Award presentation proportions but with the world number one denying his reputed $200m (€150m) deal is about the money.

“I hope it finishes this year,” smiles Liam Buckley with studied understatement when the subject of probably the most famous trophy drought in Irish football comes up yet again.

A raft of Munster men will get their first taste of senior international hockey when Ireland A take on England A next weekend in Dublin.

He’s not on Twitter or Facebook, but John Jermyn can’t resist swiping his girlfriend Louise’s smartphone from time to time to see what his Irish international hockey team-mates are up to.

An escort of youngsters dressed in navy blue and each carrying a three-iron provided one of many touching moments at the funeral of Seve Ballesteros today.

A minute’s silence and round of applause for Seve Ballesteros at a golf tournament is one thing, but when it comes before a tennis semi-final between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal then you know the world of sport has lost a truly giant figure.

The regional government of Cantabria has announced that the funeral of Seve Ballesteros will take place at 1pm on Wednesday at the San Pedro parish church in his home village of Pedrena near Santander.

THE condition of golfing legend Seve Ballesteros, one of the most popular sportsmen ever, has taken a serious turn for the worse.

The condition of golfing legend Seve Ballesteros, one of the most popular sportsmen ever, has taken a serious turn for the worse.

A RYANAIR flight from Dublin was forced to shut down one of its engines en route to Spain after a mechanical fault was identified on board.

“ON the tee, from Spain, Severiano Ballesteros.”

A new ash cloud dashed hopes that air travel could begin to return to normal today as the row over the grounding of planes intensified.

The first of three Royal Navy warships began rescuing Britons stranded by the air chaos today.

MUNSTER rugby fans are dusting down their maps, flicking through the phrase books and cranking up Google Earth as they prepare for another assault on mainland Europe.