Seventeen-year-old swimming prospect Sycerika McMahon is London-bound after securing the Olympic A standard in the 100m breaststroke this morning.

Sycerika McMahon has qualified for the women's 100m freestyle at May's European Swimming Championships in Debrecen, Hungary.

One of Irish swimming’s oldest records fell on day three of the Irish Long Course Swimming Championships and Olympic Trials, as 20-year-old Bethany Carson slipped under Michelle Smith’s 100m butterfly mark from 1996.

GERMANY’S Nazi government was so angry about a dog trained to imitate Hitler that it started an obsessive campaign against its Finnish owner, according to newly discovered documents.

Ryanair has today announced that it is to open its 38th base at Malaga in June 2010 with four based aircraft and 19 new routes being launched.

Ryanair is to base one new aircraft in Bristol airport and two new planes at Liverpool.

Ciara Mageean showed her Championship pedigree once again by claiming gold in today's 1500 metres final at the European Youth Olympics in Tampere, Finland.

Ireland's Ciara Mageean won a silver medal in today's 800 metres final at the IAAF World Youth Championships in Sudtirol, Italy.

DARREN O’NEILL can’t wait to don the gloves and get his European boxing championships campaign underway in Liverpool.

A masked student gunman who killed 10 people at a Finnish college today had been questioned then released yesterday by police over violent videos he posted on the internet.

KENNETH EGAN will meet Xiaoping Zhang of China in the light heavyweight boxing final tomorrow (8.50am), when he hopes to emulate fellow Dubliner, Michael Carruth, by winning the Olympic gold medal.

DERVAL O’ROURKE finally confirmed that she won’t be defending her 60m hurdles title at the World Championships in Valencia next week after a disappointing run in Tampere.

Ryanair has lodged a case in the European Court against the Commission’s failure to act on complaints about a reported €500m worth of state aid to Olympic Airlines, granted by the Greek government.

Ryanair has condemned the European Commission's plans investigate the airline's costs base at Lubeck and Tampere airports and says it will sue the Comission for what it describes as its "repeated failure" to take action on a number of complaints about State aid to other airlines.

Budget airline Ryanair announced it was starting 11 new routes from Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport in the autumn.

A Ryanair Boeing 737 with 111 people aboard made an emergency landing in southern Sweden after an engine failure, rescue officials said today.

Ryanair has announced four new routes to airports in France, Lithuania and Poland.

Finnish striker Henri Scheweleff has been handed a week-long trial with Celtic.

KENNETH EGAN (Neilstown), gold medallist at the recent Tammer Tournament in Tampere, Finland, will be back in action at The National Stadium tonight when Ireland entertain Holland in a contest that will cater for schoolboys, cadets and juniors as well as seniors.

The Czech Republic put their recent problems behind them as they chalked up a 1-0 victory in Prague to end group one leaders Romania’s 100% World Cup qualifying record.

BAA chief executive Mike Clasper said yesterday that the British airport company has no intention of declaring “open warfare” on Ryanair.

Ryanair has announced eight new routes linking eight European countries.

IMMIGRATION is an issue of major concern to the voters of Europe, according to opinion polls.

RYANAIR is scrapping nine routes where seat-sells are less than 80% of capacity and reallocating aircraft to new ones.

RYANAIR has reported a 16% rise in after-tax profits despite a 12% fall in ticket prices to prop up sales on new destinations.

GARETH TURNBULL has achieved his ambition of posting the B standard for the world championships.

ERIN KINNEAR (Victoria College) could emerge as the brightest star in the galaxy at the Kit Kat Irish Schools Track and Field Championships in Tullamore on Saturday (9 am) when the best and the brightest face each other in what promises to be an action- packed day.

Ever-expanding Irish budget carrier Ryanair announced today it would be operating five new routes from London, starting at the end of April.

RYANAIR is going head-to-head with Scandinavia carrier SAS in a vicious battle for customers as Ryanair offer fares up to 95% cheaper than SAS from its ninth European base 100km south of Stockholm.

Budget carrier Ryanair today announced a new European base and a raft of new low fares.

Two Finnish mobile phone operators have opened third generation networks for test use.