A US-bound flight turned around over the North Atlantic this evening and returned to Dublin after a passenger suddenly fell ill.

A pilot taxiing to the runway for takeoff was the person who reported the drone sighting at Dublin airport this morning.

Timely delivery of the infrastructure promised in the National Development Plan will be the key to Cork achieving its potential in the coming decades.

A proposed new law would put Fingal County Council in charge of monitoring noise levels at Dublin Airport.

The operator of Shannon Airport has urged the Government to financially support its efforts to secure flight connectivity to one of the EU's major airports after Brexit.

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.

Limerick civil engineering firm Roadbridge will co-partner Spanish giant FCC Construccion on the DAA’s €320m north runway project for Dublin Airport — with an extra €10m sweetener separately given by the authority to fund local community projects.

Business groups have backed the Daa in its efforts to remove restrictions on overnight flights from its new North Runway, as protests from local residents opposed to the plan intensify.

Sod-turning on a major new development usually brings with it an air of excitement — and when that development is an airport expansion, the mood is even more elevated. A busy airport signals you’ve arrived — as a destination, as an attractive investment proposition, as a country that’s on the up.

Shannon Airport is suffering because of the dominant position of Dublin Airport, Limerick economists have said.

Construction of the new runway is due to be completed by early 2021.

An organisation made up of public and private companies and State-backed entities aimed at promoting business between Ireland and Saudi Arabia has pulled out of a business event in Riyadh next month.

Around 300 jobs are up for grabs at Dublin Airport, with the construction of its new North runway.

The Office of Public Works (OPW) and a community group have ambitious plans to bring more tourists to a stately home in Co Cork, with the hope of attracting up to 900,000 people annually to it within the next seven years.

If there’s anything guaranteed to start a fight between regional and capital cities, it’s a proposal — or even just talk about a proposal — for a major capital expenditure development, ideally involving railways and aviation.

Management at Dublin Airport are rubbishing a suggestion that a new terminal is needed in the near future.

CORK AIRPORT should remain under the same ownership as Dublin, with Shannon Airport to be run as a separate, more business-orientated entity managed by local bodies.

THE removal of Shannon Airport from the control of the Dublin Airport Authority would allow the mid-west airport to finally realise its potential, it was claimed last night.

TALKS are to begin next week on ways to address the rapidly escalating deficit in the pension scheme for the Dublin Airport Authority and Aer Lingus workers, now reportedly in the red by up to €600 million.

RYANAIR chief executive Michael O’Leary has criticised the Department of Transport’s choices for new executives at Dublin Airport Authority and Tourism Ireland.