shannon flights
Just to add to your comments the reason there is a demo at the airport is that the transports albeit civilian are carrying troops and troops do not travel to an operational area un armed.
There are also military cargo transports in/out and who knows what's on board.
This is against Irish neutrality and according to the office of Foreign Affairs no permission has been sought from the Gov regarding the usage of Shannon.
So far this year only 1 request for 1 aircraft has been made to the Irish Gov but there are over 10flights per day at the moment.
The aircarft are not being searched so they may be carrying more than light arms for the troops.
Also the cargo transports will be carrying more than just light arms and that's why there is such a problem.
The gov has denied on television that the flights are not carrying any weapons at all which is laughable.
Personally i don't think they should fly to Shannon when the aircraft have the capability to fly to the US bases in Germany or the UK and therefore arriving/depting in a more secure enviroment.