Ireland is planning to get rid of the one and two cent coins.

The move comes after a trial in 2013 which resulted in 85% satisfaction among consumers and 100% among retailers.

A woman travelling on an Angolan passport has been arrested on drug trafficking charges following the death of a passenger on a flight from Lisbon to Dublin.

The aeroplane was diverted to Cork airport after the man bit a passenger and had to be restrained by airline crew. He then lost consciousness and died on the flight, the suspicion being that his ingested drugs had been released into his system.

Andy Sullivan, 29, dominated the Portuguese Masters at Vilamoura today to win the 9th edition of the competition with a 23 under par total at the Oceanico Victoria course.

Sullivan’s final score of 261 strokes was nine below fellow Englishman Chris Wood and 10 below the South African Trevor Fisher Jr.

Such is the efficiency of the Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) that 7,000 Golden Visas are waiting to be processed.

An estimated €3.5 billion in real estate sales are held up by bureaucracy, a testament to Portugal’s failure to run a scheme with knock-on benefits to the economy and rich pickings for top-end estate agencies.

Lagos council has done a similar deal as Olhão with Docapesca and soon will have financial and managerial control of its own waterfront.

The Avenida Descrobrimentos along Lagos’ prime water frontage will now be managed by the council which now is in charge of licensing the commercial areas, setting the fees which will he ‘harmonised’,  and collecting the rents.

The new ‘cheap fuel’ law, introduced in April this year amid groans of pain from fuel retailers, dictated that all fuel stations over a certain size must offer low cost diesel and petrol, made cheap by the exclusion of additives.

The savings settled down to between two and three cents a litre with the fuel companies claiming that drivers’ fuel economy would be lower and engine life reduced if they opt for the low cost option.

Portugal’s Constitutional Court has declared as 'unconstitutional' the test scheme that has seen many teachers sacked from their posts, thus exacerbating teacher shortages.

In what may be the final humiliation for Education Minister Nuno Crato, teachers’ unions already are calling for hefty compensation for those of their members that were dismissed after they failed to pass the dreaded test.

A major rescue operation is underway as seven tugs assemble to tow a tanker which was stranded near Cascais Marina on Saturday night.

The Captain of the Port of Cascais, Mário Fonte Domingues, said that the Tokyo Spirit's ballast tanks were pumped out this morning and after this stabilisation operation the tugs can get to work pulling the ship back into deeper water.