By , DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland’s two dominant centre-right parties and the smaller Green Party agreed on Friday to form a new coalition government that will focus on climate action and end four months of political stalemate.Slideshow Fianna Fail leader Micheál Martin is set to be elected prime minister on Saturday, replacing Fine Gael’s Leo Varadkar, in a deal that for the first time unites the two rival parties that have dominated Irish politics since independence a century ago.Varadkar is then due to return to the prime minister’s office halfway through the five-year term under a novel...…By , DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland’s two dominant centre-right parties and the smaller Green Party agreed on Friday to form a new coalition government that will focus on climate action and end four months of political stalemate.Slideshow Fianna Fail leader Micheál Martin is set to be elected prime minister on Saturday, replacing Fine Gael’s Leo Varadkar, in a deal that for the first time unites the two rival parties that have dominated Irish politics since independence a century ago.Varadkar is then due to return to the prime minister’s office halfway through the five-year term under a novel...WW…

By , PARIS (Reuters) - Budget giant Ryanair is set to place a hefty order for up to 75 additional Boeing 737 MAX jets, throwing a commercial lifeline to the embattled U.S. planemaker after regulators lifted a 20-month safety ban, industry sources said.Europe’s largest low-cost carrier has been negotiating for months with Boeing over whether to exercise an option for 75 jets, lifting its total MAX order as high as 210 aircraft, as part of a compensation deal for delays caused by the grounding.But a deal for dozens of jets only became possible once U.S. and European regulators lifted the...…By , PARIS (Reuters) - Budget giant Ryanair is set to place a hefty order for up to 75 additional Boeing 737 MAX jets, throwing a commercial lifeline to the embattled U.S. planemaker after regulators lifted a 20-month safety ban, industry sources said.Europe’s largest low-cost carrier has been negotiating for months with Boeing over whether to exercise an option for 75 jets, lifting its total MAX order as high as 210 aircraft, as part of a compensation deal for delays caused by the grounding.But a deal for dozens of jets only became possible once U.S. and European regulators lifted the...WW…

Javascript is required for this site to display correctly."Fragile" isn't a word you'd associate with the normally boisterous Michael O'Leary, but these are still uncertain times and this is how the boss of Ryanair perceives Europe this summer.Matthew ParsonsRyanair said on Monday it was impossible to give a detailed forecast beyond hoping to return to “reasonable profitability” this year amid and the Ukraine war, after posting a smaller annual loss.The largest European airline by passenger numbers posted a $369.06 million loss for the pandemic-scarred 12 months to March 31 and said it...…Javascript is required for this site to display correctly."Fragile" isn't a word you'd associate with the normally boisterous Michael O'Leary, but these are still uncertain times and this is how the boss of Ryanair perceives Europe this summer.Matthew ParsonsRyanair said on Monday it was impossible to give a detailed forecast beyond hoping to return to “reasonable profitability” this year amid and the Ukraine war, after posting a smaller annual loss.The largest European airline by passenger numbers posted a $369.06 million loss for the pandemic-scarred 12 months to March 31 and said it...WW…

By , LONDON (Reuters) - Britain and the European Union on Thursday reiterated their commitment to resolve post-Brexit trade frictions over the Northern Ireland border in the wake of a row over COVID-19 vaccines.Senior British minister Michael Gove and European Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic released a joint statement after they met on Thursday, saying they had “a frank but constructive discussion”.They added they would “spare no effort” to implement solutions agreed in December under the so-called Northern Ireland Protocol, but did not provide details.Britain’s exit from the EU’s...…By , LONDON (Reuters) - Britain and the European Union on Thursday reiterated their commitment to resolve post-Brexit trade frictions over the Northern Ireland border in the wake of a row over COVID-19 vaccines.Senior British minister Michael Gove and European Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic released a joint statement after they met on Thursday, saying they had “a frank but constructive discussion”.They added they would “spare no effort” to implement solutions agreed in December under the so-called Northern Ireland Protocol, but did not provide details.Britain’s exit from the EU’s...WW…

By DUBLIN (Reuters) -Ryanair expects a record loss of close to 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) in the year to March 31 before what Chief Executive Michael O’Leary says will be a “dramatic recovery” later in the year thanks to COVID-19 vaccination programmes.The Irish low-cost airline, Europe’s largest, forecast a loss between 850 million and 950 million euros in its current financial year - about five times larger than its previous record loss in 2009.But O’Leary told an investor call that bookings would “snap back very strongly” once confidence grows in the rollout of vaccines across the...…By DUBLIN (Reuters) -Ryanair expects a record loss of close to 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) in the year to March 31 before what Chief Executive Michael O’Leary says will be a “dramatic recovery” later in the year thanks to COVID-19 vaccination programmes.The Irish low-cost airline, Europe’s largest, forecast a loss between 850 million and 950 million euros in its current financial year - about five times larger than its previous record loss in 2009.But O’Leary told an investor call that bookings would “snap back very strongly” once confidence grows in the rollout of vaccines across the...WW…

By DUBLIN (Reuters) - A move by Ireland’s data regulator’s in August to halt the transatlantic transfer of Facebook customer data threatened “devastating” and “irreversible” consequences for its business, a lawyer representing the U.S. company said.Facebook is asking Ireland’s High Court to review the preliminary decision by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, which took action in August following July rulings on EU-U.S. data transfers by the Court of Justice of the European Union.Ireland’s data watchdog, Facebook’s lead EU regulator because its European headquarters are in Dublin, told...…By DUBLIN (Reuters) - A move by Ireland’s data regulator’s in August to halt the transatlantic transfer of Facebook customer data threatened “devastating” and “irreversible” consequences for its business, a lawyer representing the U.S. company said.Facebook is asking Ireland’s High Court to review the preliminary decision by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, which took action in August following July rulings on EU-U.S. data transfers by the Court of Justice of the European Union.Ireland’s data watchdog, Facebook’s lead EU regulator because its European headquarters are in Dublin, told...WW…

By , DUBLIN (Reuters) - Sinn Fein on Monday said it wanted a major role in Ireland’s next government after a record election showing, a move that would raise its central goal of reunification with Northern Ireland near the top of the agenda in Dublin for the first time.The left-wing Irish nationalist party stunned the establishment by beating the two center-right parties that have led every government in the country’s history, almost doubling its vote share from the last election to 24.5%.Sinn Fein’s low number of candidates meant, however, that it fell just short of the largest number of...…By , DUBLIN (Reuters) - Sinn Fein on Monday said it wanted a major role in Ireland’s next government after a record election showing, a move that would raise its central goal of reunification with Northern Ireland near the top of the agenda in Dublin for the first time.The left-wing Irish nationalist party stunned the establishment by beating the two center-right parties that have led every government in the country’s history, almost doubling its vote share from the last election to 24.5%.Sinn Fein’s low number of candidates meant, however, that it fell just short of the largest number of...WW…