Ireland NewsBBC NEWS | UK | Northern Ireland | Passengers stranded as Zoom folds Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:19:19 -0000
About 100 passengers expecting to fly to Canada have been stranded at Belfast International Airport after their airline folded.
Aer Lingus reports €22m losses Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:59:26 -0000
Aer Lingus has reported an operating loss of €22.3m in the first half of this year, blaming a jump of almost 50% in its fuel costs.
Real difficulties with cutting emissions: Ryan Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:57:38 -0000
The Minister for Communications, Energy & Natural Resources, Eamon Ryan, has said that the Government faces real difficulties and real challenges in reducing Ireland's carbon emissions.
Hemingway confidante brings author's Havana to life Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:15:18 -0000
By Anna MacSwanEDINBURGH (Reuters) - She was a teenager from Dublin looking to make her name as a journalist when American author Ernest Hemingway entered her life in 1959.The young Irishwoman became his secretary and traveling companion, and after his death married his son.Decades later, Valerie Hemingway brought her memories of daiquiris in tropical Cuba and bullfights in Spain to rainy Edinburgh, Scotland's capital.She teamed up with Scottish director Toby Gough and a Cuban music and dance group to recreate the Havana of the 1950s in a stage production called "Hemingway's Havana" as part of last week's Fringe Festival.
Tipperary's Rose is Rose of Tralee Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:02:36 -0000
Twenty-three-year-old Aoife Kelly representing Co Tipperary has won the Rose of Tralee.
Sligo has Ireland's highest number of housing complaints Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:54:43 -0000
SLIGO has the highest percentage of people with problems with their dwellings, according to a new report.
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