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The Irish Sun
11 hours ago
- Business
- The Irish Sun
Aer Lingus launch new flight sale with prices from €192 to top holiday spots including New York, Orlando and Boston
AER Lingus bosses have launched a new flight sale with trips to dream American destinations from just €192 - but jetsetters need to act fast. Holidaymakers can choose from New York, Boston, Orlando, Chicago and many more with these amazing deals. 7 Aer Lingus has launched an American flight sale Credit: John Allen 7 Flight prices have been slashed on top American hotspots Credit: Getty Images - Getty 7 Choose from Boston, New York, Orlando and even Nashville with the latest sale Credit: Getty Images - Getty The popular Visit the city that never sleeps from Dublin airport this year as flights to New York are just €194.44. Explore the busy city of Chicago with flights from Dublin at €206.44 in September. READ MORE IN TRAVEL Choose from the wide range of theme parks and amusements in Florida this summer with Aer Lingus. With flights to Orlando from just €282.40 in September, have fun for all the family with hot spots like Disney World and Universal Studios. Taste some of the best pizza in the world or see a live baseball game in action in Chicago this year. With flights from just €206.44 from Dublin, you could tick the infamous Bean (Cloud Gate) off your bucket list this summer. Most read in The Irish Sun Country music fans are set to love the latest Nashville flight in September for just €294.91. And any I'm an Irish holidaymaker and I upgraded to Aer Lingus' business class for FREE Shannon Airport is supplying holiday-goers with the chance to go to America too with two popular routes on offer. Fly to New York JFK for just €194.21 from the 16 September. Or visit the stunning city of Boston with flights from €234.21. Meanwhile holidaymakers are set to love the newest route launched by Aer Lingus just in time for summer. Passengers can now book a holiday to , with direct flights from Dublin Aiport. It will run from January 6, 2026 until April 29 without needing to stop over on the way. According to the , fares to the "paradise" destination start from just €291 each way and will operate three times a week . 7 Fly from either Shannon or Dublin airport this September Credit: GETTY 7 Find fun for all the family with flights to Orlando from €282.40 Credit: GETTY 7 Aer Lingus unveiled direct flights from Dublin to Cancún Credit: Aer Lingus 7 Ireland's first direct flight from Dublin to Cancun is starting in January 2026 Credit: Naoise Culhane
Irish Examiner
4 days ago
- Irish Examiner
Departure Lounge: Five travel deals to book, including direct flights to Cancun
Direct flights to Cancun Exciting news for sunseekers as Aer Lingus this week announced the launch of direct flights from Dublin to Cancun in Mexico beginning January 2026. Fares are from €291 each way and booking is open at If however, you can't wait until next year for a Mexican holiday, TUI is offering a 14-night all-inclusive break with savings of up to 34% staying at The Grand Riviera Princess Hotel. The all-inclusive beachfront five-star in Riviera Maya has an impressive eight pools, nine restaurants, and 10 bars. Departing from Dublin, July 5, for 14 nights, €1,709pps including luggage and transfers. Deal of the week Newly launched in Ireland last autumn On the Beach has been running an extensive ad campaign to win over Irish holidaymakers. Current offers flying from Munster include a week on Spain's Costa Dorada from €428.24pp. The package includes seven nights B&B at the four-star Ponient Dorada Palace, departing June 6 from Cork. The hotel includes an adults-only rooftop area with jacuzzis and access to PortAventura theme park. Classical Spain Experience classical Spain on a seven-night guided tour of Seville, Córdoba, and Granada through Spain's historic heartlands. This escorted tour will reveal the cultural riches of Andalusia and Castile, from Granada's Moorish palaces to Toledo's medieval streets. With the Alhambra's intricate architecture, Seville's lively plazas and plenty of excellent food and wine, it sounds like a great itinerary. Classical Spain: Seville, Córdoba and Granada tour starts from €1,495 per person for seven days including flights transfers, and B&B in three-star superior and four-star hotels. Delights of Skye Renowned restaurant with rooms, The Three Chimneys on Skye, and Talisker, the island's oldest distillery, have announced plans to lead the rise of the gastro-distillery on the Scottish island. Skye is a breathtaking destination to visit (an easy 200-km trip from Glasgow) with its rugged scenery and excellent local produce. Visitors can expect a summer menu of freshly caught langoustines, oysters, mussels and scallops, or locally cured meats and cheeses. For an immersive experience, stay at The House over By on the shores of Loch Dunvegan with the dramatic backdrop of the Duirinish peninsula, just 30 minutes' drive from Talisker. Cycle and stay East Cork's Castlemartyr Resort has launched a greenway offer this summer. The two-night Greenway Cycle and Stay package marries cycling or walking with all the trappings of the family-favourite five-star resort. Relax over two nights, with breakfast on both mornings and dinner in the leafy Canopy Restaurant on one night. During the day, get out and explore the newly completed 23km Midleton to Youghal Greenway. Best of all, you'll be provided with rental bikes and a special Castlemartyr Resort picnic to fuel you on your way. €790.20 based on two guests sharing a Deluxe Room for two.
Daily Mail
4 days ago
- Business
- Daily Mail
British Airways owner IAG tops FTSE 100 monthly risers
International Airlines Group (IAG) is the best-performing FTSE 100 stock over the past month, spurred by strong results and easing tariffs. British Airways' parent company has risen by 25.6 per cent to 326.6p, taking their gains over the last year to around 91 per cent. Earlier this month, IAG revealed that its operating profits nearly tripled to a forecast-beating €198million in the opening three months of 2025. The London-based business, which also owns Aer Lingus and Iberia, benefited from lower fuel costs, bumper demand for leisure travel, and favourable foreign exchange movements. This compensated for the Easter weekend falling in late April, having taken place the prior year much earlier than usual in late March. IAG also announced plans to purchase 53 new aircraft as part of a UK-US trade deal, with the airplanes due for delivery between 2028 and 2033. Early this week, the firm's shares received a boost after US President Donald Trump postponed plans to slap a 50 per cent tariff on the European Union. Air travel between the US and the EU has declined since Trump's inauguration owing mainly to concerns about the president's immigration policies. However, IAG noted in its first-quarter results that demand for premium cabins on its North Atlantic routes had partially offset softer US economy ticket sales. Another group which has experienced relatively limited impact from trade-related uncertainty is Diploma, whose shares have grown by 18.4 per cent in the last month. Growth: British Airways' parent company, International Airlines Group (IAG), is the best-performing FTSE 100 stock over the past month Diploma shares soared to a record high last week after the products supplier raised its full-year guidance on the back of a robust first-half performance. It partially credited the result to orders for digital antenna systems and data centres in its Windy City Wire division, as well as rising sales in core building markets. Not far behind the business is gambling giant Entain (up 17.7 per cent) and explosive detectors maker Smiths Group (up 16.8 per cent); the latter predicted its annual sales would be at the top end of its guidance range. Meanwhile, two mining giants have both expanded by 16.2 per cent: Glencore, one of the world's largest mining firms, and Fresnillo, which has reaped the tailwind of surging gold prices. Geopolitical and economic uncertainty stemming from US tariff measures have driven more investors to back safe-haven assets, such as gold. Fresnillo shares have been further elevated by silver prices increasing in response to strong demand for the metal's use in eco-friendly technologies, such as solar panels and electric vehicles. Other companies among the top ten monthly risers include Hiscox and EasyJet (both up 16 per cent), M&G (up 15 per cent) and Rolls-Royce Holdings (up 13.8 per cent).
Irish Times
4 days ago
- Business
- Irish Times
Airline passengers got €1.1m in compensation for complaints in 2024
Irish airline passengers received €1.197 in compensation for complaints upheld by the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) against airlines. The aviation watchdog also obtained €360,104 in refunds for passengers following the its intervention. The IAA's 2024 annual report also said that 1,943 complaints against airlines were not upheld. The report said that the main reason was that the air carrier was able to prove that a disruption was caused by extraordinary circumstances and therefore it would be exempt from paying compensation. READ MORE Of the 1,726 complaints upheld, 973 complaints related to flight cancellations, 677 complaints concerned long delays while 64 complaints related to 'denied boarding', the report said. Last year Aer Lingus accounted for 33 per cent of all complaints with Ryanair accounting for 31 per cent, the report said. According to the report 'overall, complaints against Aer Lingus are down 6pc year on year despite significant disruption in June and July 2024 due to industrial action which resulted in the cancellation of over 500 flights'. The report also said that the IAA handled 4,425 complaints against airlines in 2024 and this included complaints carried over from 2023 and 2,211 complaints submitted in 2024. The number of complaints submitted in 2024 was down 30 per cent in comparison to the 2023 complaint levels, the report noted. Dublin Airport reports its service quality performance to the IAA monthly and the report said that security queue times have improved markedly since 2023. In 2024, security queue times exceeded 30 minutes on six separate days and this compared to 20 days in 2023. The IAA also monitors quality of service at Dublin Airport across 15 different passenger satisfaction metrics and in 2024, Dublin Airport incurred a passenger Quality of Service (QoS) bonus of €4.5 million and a penalty of €3.8 million, resulting in a net bonus of €0.7 million. The IAA last year recorded a pretax profit of €2.57 million as revenues totalled €37.43 million. The IAA's legal costs last year came €1.55 million. The report also said that the determination of legal costs in respect of a legacy defamation case from 2014 were settled in February 2025 for €407,486 following a Supreme Court decision. Numbers employed total came 189 with 134 engaged in safety regulation. Staff costs totalled €22 million and the report said that 91 employees earned more than €100,000 and that included five in the €175,000 to €200,000 pay range, 24 earning between €150,000 and €175,000 and 41 earning between €125,000 and €150,000.
Irish Examiner
5 days ago
- Politics
- Irish Examiner
Ireland on a journey from solid fuel to clean and green
In 1939, the painter Séan Keating produced a mural for the Irish pavilion at the World Fair in New York. The theme of the Fair was 'The World of Tomorrow'. Keating's mural depicts the monumental Ardnacrusha hydroelectric power station built in 1929, a twin propeller Aer Lingus plane and, in the middle, a mechanical peat excavator representing the fledgling peat industry. The Turf Development Board was established in 1934 by the newly elected Fianna Fáil Government. In the early 1930s, turf was entirely cut by hand and was largely for domestic use. Coal was the predominant fuel in the country, imported from Britain with infrastructure and logistics to support it — from Dublin port to the coal hatches built into Victorian houses. Unlike the modern feat of engineering represented by Ardnacrusha, the traditional practice of turf-cutting was associated with backwardness and poverty, a legacy of the colonial era. One Fine Gael TD, opposed to the development of an indigenous turf industry, quipped: 'I never thought that the day would come in this country when a Bill would be introduced into our Parliament purporting to solve unemployment by turning the people's eyes to the bogs of Ireland.' Thirty years later, the Bellacorrick turf-fuelled power station was opened with a celebratory dance in Crossmolina town hall. The Western People declared it the 'event of the century', noting that fifty years earlier, the realisation of such a project would have been more unlikely than an independent Irish state. Eighty people were employed in the power station, three hundred on the bog, providing electricity to rural households, farms and businesses. The familiar story of Irish modernisation begins with Séan Lemass ushering in T.K. Whitaker's new economic policy in the early 1960s. This periodisation insists that the Ireland that came before 1960 was backward, inward-looking and conservative. But where does this leave Séan Keating's confident mural depicting a brave new modern Republic? Where does it leave the history of Ireland's peat industry, initially a project of sovereign development and energy decolonisation? And how does this history speak to the present conjuncture of climate crisis, energy insecurity, and Ireland's geopolitical alignments in an uncertain world system? Energy decolonisation In 1956, Todd Andrews, who established the Turf Development Board, gave an address to the Statistical and Social Enquiry Society of Ireland entitled 'Some Precursors Of Bord Na Mona'. He gave generous praise to individuals who were 'characterised by abundance of public spirit' but whose 'endeavours were dissipated in the unpropitious social, economic and political climate of their times.' This climate was, in a word, colonialism. Some might dismiss Andrews' reading as outdated anti-colonial sentiment. But this is to gloss the material ways in which colonialism structures the economic activity of colonised countries, including after formal independence. Dependence on British coal fundamentally constrained Southern Ireland's capacity to embark on energy-intensive, industrial development. The creation of an indigenous turf industry was thus a project of energy decolonisation. Efforts to develop an indigenous energy industry were blocked not only by Britain, but by Irish coal merchants and their associated economic and political allies. When coal merchants were required to sell a certain amount of turf for every unit of coal, W. T. Cosgrave, leader of Fine Gael, argued that this was 'an interference with the citizen's ordinary right to purchase whatever commodity he requires'. The national media aligned with Cosgrave's position, raising the 'spectre of socialism'. To break the status quo, to initiate something new, required state intervention at scale. After World War Two, Bord na Móna was established with new authority and resources to purchase land, embark on 10-year development plans, and to finance these plans through long term, low-interest loans from the state. Within a decade, Ireland had its first turf-fired power stations and the development of 24 new bogs producing over a million tonnes of turf a year. A New Internationalism In 1936, an Irish delegation led by Todd Andrews visited Finland, Germany and Russia. Weismoor was the showpiece of the German turf industry and a tourist attraction for residents of Bremen and Hamburg who came to visit the large glass houses heated with surplus heat from the turf-powered station. Andrews also observed the neat and comfortable houses of those who worked the bogs. 'I made up my mind then', he writes in his memoir, 'that if ever I had the opportunity, I would recognise as a priority the value of maintaining a decent environment for people at work.' For Andrews, these visits demonstrated that turf was not a source of derision or backwardness, but the basis of modern ways of living if only the proper infrastructures and planning were put in place. Between 1950-57, the Bord na Móna research station in Kildare recruited new engineering and agricultural science graduates to experiment with techniques and technologies for exploiting turf. As this expertise developed, it was only right that Ireland hosted the first International Peat Symposium in 1954, with delegates from fifteen countries. At a time when thousands were taking to boats, the Midlands of Ireland saw internal migration in the 1950s and 1960s as the peat industry grew. Bord na Móna was the only semi-state that built housing for its workers. Frank Gibney, a modernist architect and planner, was commissioned to design 'worker villages' from Kildare to Roscommon. These housing developments represented for Andrews, 'the fulfilment of a process aimed at industrialising a rural population while at the same time improving rather than disrupting its environment'. Energy sovereignty According to Todd Andrews, Bord na Móna would not have been possible without Frank Aiken. Better known for his role as Minister for Foreign Affairs through the 1950s and 1960s, Aiken had always been a strong advocate of national industry and the development of indigenous resources. Bord na Móna needed this support. Even the ESB, the main purchaser of peat, was cool towards the industry, understanding that coal, and then oil, offered a more reliable, efficient and, ultimately, cheaper source of fuel for generating electricity. In 1956, Bord na Móna had to lay off technical workers because the ESB refused to purchase more peat. Aiken questioned the Fine Gael Minister responsible: 'Does the Minister think it good national policy to depend on imported coal and oil for the generation of electricity?' The late 1950s was a pivotal moment in Ireland's economic development. Under strong pressure from the US, the country was shifting away from indigenous industrialisation, towards an economy reliant on foreign direct investment. This would ultimately involve new forms of dependency on the US and EEC, undermining what indigenous industry existed, including in the energy sector. Sovereign development means being less dependent on powerful states, such as Britain or the US. This in turn enables a country like Ireland to act more confidently on a world stage. Frank Aiken is best known for representing Ireland at the UN, speaking in favour of the People's Republic of China, supporting decolonisation across the Third World, and pushing for nuclear non-proliferation. Such principled positions were attacked by the opposition in Ireland for putting off US industries and investment. As he advanced Ireland's policy of neutrality and multilateralism in the UN, Aiken also advanced support for newly independent countries across the Third World through solidaristic aid and cooperation. In 1964, Aer Lingus trained up to 80 African and Asian engineers and pilots in the maintenance and flying of planes, while Bord na Móna co-operated with the Government of Pakistan in initiating peat development in that country. Reclaiming the past We should always avoid the trap of nostalgia. But we also need to recognise that history is not a linear path. Despite what we are told, Irish modernity does not begin and end with entry into the EEC and the arrival of US companies. There are modernisation paths that were not taken, promises unfulfilled, that speak to us with new relevance today. At a time when Ireland is doubling down on its dependence on US fossil fuels with Shannon LNG, we should remember our historic struggle for energy sovereignty against Western imperial powers; as Ireland's energy transition is increasingly dictated by the needs of US tech companies and their data centres, we should remember the public ethos and social priorities that drove the development of Bord na Móna; and as we face a situation in which Ireland has abundant offshore wind energy and yet the highest energy prices in the EU, we should remember the political ambition and state planning required to build an indigenous turf industry from the ground up.
