Dublin and Cork airports are scaling back passenger operations, but will keep runways open for supplies.

Airport operator, the daa Group, has been ordered to pay €1,000 in compensation for discriminating against a deaf man who missed a flight at Dublin airport during Storm Ali.

The DAA is currently looking for a delivery company to test the plan, which would allow passengers to securely leave their luggage at different points in the city.

An individual who contacted the authorities almost 8,000 times contributed to a tenfold increase in complaints about aircraft using Dublin Airport last year.

Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary has today said 3,000 jobs at Dublin Airport could go this year with the loss of three million passengers.

The Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey says he's confident that the Dublin Airport Authority will weather the current economic storm.

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.

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.

Passengers travelling through Dublin Airport face having to pay a new charge for plastic bags from today.

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.