Letter to Irish Independent, 4th July, 2006
Before the day is out it is only right that a certain letter on Dublin Airport to the the Editor of today's Irish Independent should be acknowledged. The letter made a great case for improvements in airport infrastructure at Dublin Airport and how the airport has probably the shortest runway of any capital city so preventing the maximum use of both cargo and passenger aircraft to points in Asia - this despite a huge Irish government presence in Japan and China in recent days promoting Irish commercial interests in the area.
Maybe it is mixing of metaphors but there is no denying the crowd whom are charged with running the State airports at both Dublin and Cork are completely all at sea due no doubt due to the decades and decades of Government impotence in the face of opposition from the lobbies supporting the stopover position at Shannon.
How our nation has suffered for decades at the hands of such incompetence. Dublin and especially Cork goes on to pay every single day becuase of the long political patronage of Shannon because if you think for a second that Cork's new terminal solves everything you are mistaken.