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The Government has commissioned a feasibility study on developing the airport as a centre for international aid.
The 38-year-old was accidentally crushed in his car while parking at the site in Limburg on Sunday afternoon.
Although floodwaters are receding in other parts of the country, residents in the capital are being warned of further problems.
It follows yesterday’s confusion which saw only five of the seven activists due to fly home actually landing in Dublin late last night.
Half of the 14 Irish activists detained last week were due to home today but missed their flight.
Arrangements are being made for the 14 Irish activists who were on a solidarity mission to the Gaza Strip to return home.
The Department of Foreign Affairs has announced a major reshuffle of Irish ambassadors to European and Asian countries.
Sunday’s 7.2-mag earthquake killed hundreds and left thousands homeless or reluctant to return to their damaged properties.
The Department of Foreign Affairs is providing consular assistance to a young Irish woman who was beaten and raped after attending a conference in Poland.
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An image has been released of 72 cocaine packages allegedly inside the man’s stomach.
Six-year-old May Assad Monaghan was taken by her father from Cyprus on Wednesday and brought to Syria. He is demanding that her Irish mother travel to Syria to live with them.
Ireland won’t decide how to vote on Palestine’s application until the wording is finalised. How do you think Ireland should vote?
The government won’t decide on a response to Palestine’s call for statehood until a formal wording is published, a spokesman says.
Serious medical supply and staff shortages have left Tripoli hospitals unable to cope with the level of casualties from the Libyan conflict.
A travel advisory warns against all non-essential travel to the Bahamas, with Hurricane Irene set to hit within 48 hours.
Students under 21 are warned not to doctor their passports, after a number of Irish are caught falsifying their documents.
Oireachtas figures reveal the overall cost of operating Ireland’s embassies and consulates overseas.
The Department of Foreign Affairs is offering consular assistance to the family of the injured 41-year-old Irishman.
Dee Murphy was “handcuffed and shackled” on arrival at Tel Aviv airport, according to reports.
The world is ending tomorrow (we’re told) so here it is: the last ever wrap-up of the day’s news.
Irish officials in Paris are in contact with the airline in the hope of recovering the bodies of the two Irish victims who were never found.
Fianna Fáil’s Niall Collins says Irish citizens in Tokyo have been forced to turn to other embassies seeking advice.
The earth’s rotation sped up by over a microsecond because of the 8.9 magnitude earthquake.
The minister for trade and development has said that Ireland is standing by to provide assistance.
Stocks rose but oil prices fell in response to the terrible events in the Pacific.
With still many unaccounted for one news agency says the death toll is expected to rise above 1,000 people.
Reports that scientists had established a link between the activities of the sun and moon with the today’s Pacific tsunami have been dismissed by Irish astronomers.
Cities, towns and farmland seriously damaged by the 8.9 magnitude quake today, which then triggered tsunami.
Officials at the Department of the Taoiseach and Department of Foreign Affairs have so far made no official comment on the matter.
Indonesia and Guam have both lifted their tsunami warnings, after waves of just 10 centimetres hit the eastern Indonesian coast.
Weather centres around the Pacific rim show trajectory of deadly wave.
A volcano has erupted in Indonesia, just hours after an earthquake in Japan created a Pacific-wide tsunami.
The department estimates that there are around 2,000 Irish citizens in Japan. Relatives and friends of people in Japan are asked to contact the crisis centre for information.
People in the areas affected by the Pacific tsunami have uploaded photographs on social networking sites.
The Pacific tsunami has hit Taiwan causing minimal damage – it is due to hit the vulnerable Indonesia islandssoon.
The low lying Pacific islands may be swept over as a powerful tsunami hits the region – meanwhile Indonesia is bracing itself, as warnings indicate it will be the first area to be hit after Japan.
Five more Irish citizens arrived home safely yesterday. One described the Department’s handling of the situation as “diabolical”.
The Irish government jet is one of the last to leave Tripoli, after seeing the evacuation of 3 Irish and 13 other EU citizens.
The consular assistance team that had been on the ground in Tripoli has now left the country for the night.