Businessman David Dilger was today revealed as the new chairman of the State-owned Dublin Airport Authority (DAA).

Leinster fans travelling to Edinburgh from Dublin airport today are being advised to give themselves plenty of time to get through the airport.

The Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) has defended its dramatic new cost-cutting plan as being necessary to secure the future of the country's three main airports.

Dublin Airport bosses today began talks with unions over a new cost-cutting package involving 400 redundancies.

Unions are vowing to resist any enforced job losses and pay cuts at Dublin, Cork and Shannon Airports.

The Dublin Airport Authority is meeting union representatives today to discuss a plan to cut costs across its operations.

Passengers at Dublin Airport are reported to be experiencing lengthy delays at security desks today.

Around 100 Ryanair passengers have missed flights out of Dublin airport because of what the company says is unofficial strike action by security staff.

Ryanair is to cut flights from Dublin by 20% this winter. Four fewer Ryanair aircraft, equating to 200 flights, will fly from the airport this year, that airline said today.

The president of SIPTU says strike action that could cripple the country's three main airports on Thursday April 2, has not been authorised.

There is confusion this morning as to whether threatened strike action at Ireland's three main airports will go ahead next week.

The Dublin Airport Authority said it has to introduce a number of cost-cutting measures because of a significant drop in profits and passenger numbers last year.

Talks at the Labour Relations Commission over pay increments due to workers at the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) have been adjourned until Friday.

SIPTU representatives and officials from the Dublin Airport Authority are due to attend talks at the Labour Relations Commission today in an effort to resolve a pay dispute.

Threatened strike action at Dublin, Cork and Shannon airports was called off today as union leaders agreed to new talks.

SIPTU's leadership is expected to accept an invitation to talks at the Labour Relations Commission when it meets today to discuss the dispute over pay at the Dublin Airport Authority.

Ryanair have called on the Government to scrap its "stupid and unfair" €10 travel tax, as Fáilte Ireland released traffic figures which show that the passenger numbers to and from Ireland in the month of February fell by over 220,000 (-10.5%).

Irish people who are already in China are being advised to download the Travelwise app to get any alerts about the virus.

Passenger numbers at Cork Airport have increased by 9% to just over 2m in the first nine months of this year.

Ryanair has the cash to survive for “maybe even 12 months” with no flights or revenue as the Covid-19 pandemic shuts the air travel industry down, CEO Michael O’Leary has said.