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An air transportation executive who worked in the country’s health insurance industry was recently given the position as chairman of Aer Lingus.

Colm Barrington is the new chief executive of Babcock and Brown and will take up office in September of this year. He is also the director of the Dublin Airport Authority will be resigning before taking his new position.

A year ago, he was able to do a report on the country’s health insurance industry. He stated that the industry was unstable, unpredictable, and poorly governed.  He requested the Government to encourage development in the size and the quality of the health insurance industry

The Board thanked Mr. Sharman, who will be succeeded by Barrington in the position he held and for  transforming the company into a publicly renowned one.

Mr. Barrington is an experienced yachtsman, and has represented the country in a number of International yacht races.

An Bord Pleanála gave approval for Bono and The Edge, members of the wildly popular Irish band U2 to revamp Dublin’s Clarence Hotel.

An inspector earlier held a public hearing to determine if the Clarence hotel will be granted permission to plan for its redevelopment. However, the inspector had vetoed the idea. In spite of this, An Bord Pleanála paid no attention to the inspector’s recommendation who heard the case.

Several pro-heritage groups had already expressed their opposition to the band’s proposal because majority of the art-deco styled hotel, as well as a number of Georgian structures, will in fact be tore down if the group’s plan pushes through.

Back in April, band guitarist The Edge conveyed that the hotel’s future may be uncertain if the redevelopment plans were discarded.

If pro-heritage groups are against the plans, National Conservation Groups’ Damien Cassidy approved of the decision.

Damien Cassidy advised that the controversial decision will assure that the Clarence Hotel will stay open for business as one of Dublin’s landmark hotels, which is a vital issue nowadays in light of the closure of a few long-established Dublin companies.

The dubs (the team the rest of the country love to hate) marched on to the semi finals of the all Ireland championship with a 3 point win over Derry

Dublin seemed to have this match wrapped up half way into the second half having notched up a 6 point lead but Derry were far from finished and battled gamely right to the end.

Derry had a late goal chance to force a reply but the Dublin defence held strong to the delight of the 83,000 strong home crowd. Kerry overcame Monaghan in the other quarter final at the weekend to set up a mouth watering semifinal clash with Dublin

Two of Dublin’s best known hotels will close their doors for the final time today. At 4pm Jury’s Hotel in Ballsbridge and the Berkeley Court Hotel will cease trading

The sites are to be developed by Sean Dunne’s Mountbrook Homes Company. Dunne is believed to have paid $376 million euro for both sites. The company however has run into major planning permission problems with the council in Dublin with plans to build apartment blocks being thwarted

Redundancy deals have been offered to members of staff at both hotels. There will be an auction on Friday 17th of August to sell the contents of the hotel