The HSE has warned of a measles outbreak in various parts of the country and which is particularly affecting those who had not received the MMR vaccine.

Low-cost airline Ryanair is pinning its hopes on an end to the summer heatwave after passenger numbers were hit by the good weather amid plunging first-quarter profits.

Aer Lingus Regional and Ryanair both announced the addition of new routes to their summer schedules from yesterday.

Low-cost airline Ryanair is to create 1,000 UK jobs next year by flying one million more passengers on a number of new routes.

Ryanair today announced eight new routes from Brussels and Dusseldorf to destinations in Europe.

Budget airline Ryanair has today announced its 31st new route from Shannon (to Alicante) and three new routes from Dublin to Palma, Santander and Zadar (Croatia).

Ryanair has today announced 16 new routes across Europe and its 19th base in Dusseldorf.

Pope John Paul wrapped up his gruelling 100th foreign pilgrimage today with a stop in Zadar, a hotbed of nationalism where locals revere a fugitive general wanted on war crimes charges.

Looking tired in the sweltering heat, Pope John Paul II praised families as the bedrock of society today as he celebrated Mass on his tour of Croatia.

Serbia’s deputy prime minister was in military custody tonight, accused of passing secret documents to a US diplomat that could implicate former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic at his war crimes trial.