Shannon Airport heralded a new departure in transatlantic aviation as the first ever services to US the east coast airports of Stewart International in Orange County and Providence, Rhode Island were commenced by Norwegian Air International.

The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Shane Ross, T.D., has announced that Oxford Economics and Cambridge Economics Policy Associates (CEPA) have been selected as the preferred tenderer to undertake the Review of the Capacity Needs for Ireland’s State Airports.

Irish Rail passengers will have to avail of bus transfers for the next few weeks as the company completes major re-signalling works in Limerick.

People with disabilities in association with the Clare Citizens Information Centre, will come together on Friday to highlight the inaccessibility of the Irish transport network.

The CEO of Shannon Group has said, for Limerick and the region to achieve its full potential the development of the Limerick Northern Distributor Road (LNDR) is critical.

The decision by Transport Infrastructure Ireland to select a site for a Motorway Service Area on the M18 near Newmarket on Fergus is designed to suck local business from the Ennis Shannon commuter belt rather than service normal motorway traffic.

A woman had lucky yesterday when a security fence and some shrubbery was all that prevented her car from crashing onto a live railway line.

Thousands of commuters across the country have been affected by todays strike by Bus Éireann staff while some rail services have also been cancelled.