GARDAÍ are expected to travel to Slovakia as part of their investigation into how explosives were smuggled into Ireland after a botched security operation by Slovak police.

IRELAND’S capital was brought to a near standstill as arctic blizzard conditions forced Dublin airport to cancel more than 50 flights and led to almost all bus services in the city being suspended.

JUSTICE Minister Dermot Ahern has asked for a full Garda report into how explosives were brought into Ireland following a botched security operation by Slovak police.

EASON has taken over the bookshop licences at Dublin and Cork airports, vacated last week by Hughes & Hughes going into receivership.

A STARTLED pilot involved in a late-night near miss at Dublin Airport radioed air traffic controllers to tell them he thought he saw a lawnmower on a runway, it was revealed last night.

IN response to Nick Folley’s letter headlined ‘Ryanair credit card charge no help to tourism’ (February 22), I wish to clarify that Ryanair’s credit card fees are avoidable simply by paying with the widely available MasterCard Prepaid.

THE Government is willing to “bend over backwards” to secure 300 jobs from Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary after Tánaiste Mary Coughlan agreed to meet him today in a humiliating climbdown.

THE hundreds of thousands of unemployed people — 434,700 last week — watching the bun fight between the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) and Ryanair are entitled to be angry.

YOUR report headlined ‘Overseas visitors to mid-west down by 27%’ (February 12) highlighted the collapse in tourism there last year.

DEPUTY Michael Noonan is completely wrong to argue that the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) is hostile to the fortunes of Shannon airport (‘Noonan lets fly at Tánaiste over mid-west inaction,’ Irish Examiner, February 2).

TÁNAISTE Mary Coughlan and the Dublin Airport Authority have vigorously defended their involvement in Ryanair’s failed bid to create 500 engineering and support jobs at the former SR Technics site at Dublin Airport.

IRISH Life has won a major international award as the company Best at Plain English in 2009.

TO add to Michael O’Leary’s comments (December 3) about the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA – or DOH!), is it not absolutely crazy that the authority still retains ownership of its other potential competitors in Cork and Limerick.

THE space you allocate to letters is not large enough for me to address all of the untruths contained in Michael O’Leary’s letter (December 3), so instead I will merely tackle the three most blatant falsehoods.

THE Aviation Regulator has given the green light to a 26% increase in passenger charges at Dublin Airport next year, on condition that the controversial second terminal (T2) is completed.

RYANAIR will be applying within weeks to the High Court for a judicial review of what it calls the Department of Transport’s order to the aviation regulator to increase passenger prices at Dublin Airport by 40% next year.

ONE of Liam Carroll’s property development companies has shown an annual increase of 20.5% in pre-tax profits, according to newly filed accounts with the Companies Office.

PAUL MILLS’S column headlined ‘Inefficiencies see money poured down drain’ (November 12) contained a number of inaccuracies relating to the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) and the construction of Terminal Two (T2) at Dublin airport.

I WISH to correct the numerous misleading claims made by the Paul O’Kane of the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) in his letter (November 17) regarding the DAA and its white elephant, €1.3bn Terminal Two (T2).

AER LINGUS will fly medical personnel and much needed aid to the survivors of the earthquake.