DUBLIN Airport may have three independent terminals operating within the next five years if a Progressive Democrat compromise to resolve the most serious Cabinet row since the National Stadium at Abbotstown is accepted.

POTENTIAL purchasers are already showing an interest in the Great Southern Hotel (GSH) group, which is to be taken out of State ownership and sold.

CORK Airport Authority could be landed with debts of €80 million as the Government prepares to row back on a commitment to leave the new authority debt-free.

TRANSPORT Minister Martin Cullen refused to be drawn yesterday on the controversial Cork Airport debt issue, just days before its new terminal is due to open.

Ireland’s tourism sector is on the crest of a wave. It had a record year in 2018.

Aer Lingus has not ruled out expanding in Cork and Shannon as it plans a huge growth spurt across the Atlantic in the next five years, but Dublin appears likely to receive the lion’s share of the airline’s investment.

A voluntary group which engineered a huge increase in visitor numbers to Doneraile Park does not intend to sit on its laurels.

Holidaymakers and other air travellers are being advised to factor in longer queuing times on return trips from European airports due to tighter security checks.

No meaningful action has been taken to confront much less resolve the pensions’ crisis, betrayal and inequity facing hundreds of thousands of workers and their dependants.

The absence of transatlantic flights from Cork Airport is costing the county jobs, the developer of a huge office campus at the centre of Cork’s latest jobs boost has warned.

European affairs minister Dara Murphy has called on his government colleagues to stand over previous commitments to protect connectivity from Irish airports in light of IAG’s potential takeover of Aer Lingus.

Cork and Shannon airports suffered significant declines in their traffic movements last month, with Cork now down almost 12% this year compared to the first four months of 2014.