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New Airport between Athlone and Tullamore... Lets give it a name!

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    #32
    wetminger
    Registered Users Posts: 49 ✭wetminger


    Cen Fath Airport?

    Dublin West?

    Senator Donie Cassidy Airport?


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    #33
    kasper
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    pie in the sky airport


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    #34
    T Corolla
    Closed Accounts Posts: 611 ✭✭✭T Corolla


    Modhnóir snáithe seo a chur a luí le do thoil Moderator put this thread to bed please


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    #35
    Coolaboy
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    Brian Cowen Memorial..................


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    #36
    [Deleted User]
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    Níl sé in a luí fós! ;)


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    #37
    athlonelad
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    If the airport and this china town gets built it would be class but me thinks its all pie in the sky. i hope im proved wrong


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    #38
    trad
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    Midlands International Airport MIA


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    #39
    Loveless
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    anyone hear of a light aircraft making an emergency landing outside Kinnegad this evening?


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    #40
    wetminger
    Registered Users Posts: 49 ✭wetminger


    What about:

    'Sleepy Hollow AX'
    'Simon Casey International Airport'
    'moooo airport'
    'Cabaiste Aer Phort'
    'WOTs (Waste Of Time) The Point Airport'
    'Mindless Midlands International City Express General Regional Airport dot com'


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    #41
    neaideabh
    Registered Users Posts: 534 ✭✭✭neaideabh


    wetminger wrote: »
    What about:

    'Sleepy Hollow AX'
    'Simon Casey International Airport'
    'moooo airport'
    'Cabaiste Aer Phort'
    'WOTs (Waste Of Time) The Point Airport'
    'Mindless Midlands International City Express General Regional Airport dot com'

    You are Simon Casey... Aren't you?


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    #42
    jaded_pause
    Registered Users Posts: 875 ✭✭✭jaded_pause


    wetminger wrote: »
    What about:......

    'Mindless Midlands International City Express General Regional Airport dot com'

    you are my new deity...i shall pray to thee oh wise one..

    more to the point, isn't the fact that they're already spending money on trying to get it going (as in architects etc.) sort of a hint that the chinatown thing might actually happen? i'm a positive thinker and all but really now...would the govenment really spend taxpayer's money on MMICEGRA dot com if it was just going to be a waste of taxpayers money?!?!?

    (beware: sarcasm is known to be uneffective to some people.....)


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    #43
    seeker999
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    Check in / Departures will be operated by "Martins of the Doon":rolleyes::rolleyes:


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    #44
    [Deleted User]
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    My wife was telling me that a friend of hers who said that this airport plan appears to have been resurrected from the dead as there was a meeting in Tober the other night.
    It sounds like developers are trying to buy up land from local farmers to build the runway.
    Has anyone else heard of this?


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    #45
    Rasmus
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    Is there actually an airport proposed for the region? (besides the one in Horseleap years ago)?
    They could start with providing an early bus to our existing airport, the current options are ridiculous.


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    #46
    Mearings
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    My wife was telling me that a friend of hers who said that this airport plan appears to have been resurrected from the dead as there was a meeting in Tober the other night.
    It sounds like developers are trying to buy up land from local farmers to build the runway.
    Has anyone else heard of this?

    Coincidentally:
    http://www.rte.ie/news/2016/0920/817931-cabinet-airport-review/


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    #47
    flazio
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    Plus, with the completion of the M17 M18 motorways, you'll have easy access to three airports.


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    #48
    [Deleted User]
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    Mearings wrote: »
    Coincidentally:
    http://www.rte.ie/news/2016/0920/817931-cabinet-airport-review/
    Yes, it makes a lot more sense to upgrade an existing airport near the population centre of Ireland than building one in the middle of nowhere, not too far away from another airport that is already close to the middle of nowhere.


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    #49
    [Deleted User]
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    Rasmus wrote: »
    Is there actually an airport proposed for the region? (besides the one in Horseleap years ago)?
    They could start with providing an early bus to our existing airport, the current options are ridiculous.
    I believe that this is a resurrection of that plan.


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    #50
    feargale
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    neaideabh wrote: »
    To start it off I propose Donna and Joe International Airport!

    Aerfort Eilifint Ban. (AEB)


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    #51
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
    Registered Users Posts: 3,236 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    I was dropping the girlfriend to Shannon last night for a flight to London. The drive from Athlone to Shannon takes longer than her flight to London. We're kind of caught in this area insofar as the 3 obvious options all take roughly the same time to get to (for me anyway, Galway side of Athlone). The problems are that;

    Knock - Not the best roads around North Roscommon.
    Shannon - That stupid Gort - Loughrea road (good Motorway options either side of that though).
    Dublin - €10 in tolls for a round trip on top of everything else. Good road though.

    I'll be delighted when they build the Boxer Moran Intl Airport.


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    #52
    Mearings
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    You would be nearer to the Denis Naughten Intl. Airport.


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    #53
    flazio
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    Sitting in the O Rourke Lounge

    In response to above. Once the current work on the M17/M18 is complete the Midlands will be spoiled for choice for airport access. M17 will bring you right passed Tuam and after Ballindine every town and village is bypassed all the way to Knock Airport. Going the other direction, you're straight down to Shannon.


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    #54
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
    Registered Users Posts: 3,236 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    flazio wrote: »
    Sitting in the O Rourke Lounge

    In response to above. Once the current work on the M17/M18 is complete the Midlands will be spoiled for choice for airport access. M17 will bring you right passed Tuam and after Ballindine every town and village is bypassed all the way to Knock Airport. Going the other direction, you're straight down to Shannon.

    Yeah but you're driving almost to Galway city to get onto either road, a lot of extra mileage. Bah humbug.


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    #55
    demanufactured
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    Will it have a Genoa cafe?


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    #56
    L.Jenkins
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    demanufactured wrote: »
    Will it have a Genoa cafe?

    Nothing like having a big bag of greasy chips before being locked into a pressurised container for an extended period of time. It might just be me, but the farts that stuff gives me would kill a horse, I'd hate to see what would happen to a number of passengers.


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    #57
    [Deleted User]
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    L.Jenkins wrote: »
    Nothing like having a big bag of greasy chips before being locked into a pressurised container for an extended period of time. It might just be me, but the farts that stuff gives me would kill a horse, I'd hate to see what would happen to a number of passengers.
    Rapid depressurisation at 10,000 metres usually sorts out that problem fairly quickly.
    Re-pressurise to change the air and problem solved.


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    #58
    Steven81
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    http://www.offalyindependent.ie/news/roundup/articles/2016/10/28/4129197-tubber-airport-almost-ready-to-go-to-next-stage/

    Mybe we do need a name after all


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    #59
    [Deleted User]
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    The key word is "almost"!
    I "almost" won the lotto last week. :)


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    #60
    Mena Mitty
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    Drum roll please....O'Leary International Airport....or maybe not.


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    #61
    medoc
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    T Corolla wrote: »
    I regularly travel the road between the Tyrellspass and Mullingar and it is a poor affair.


    The road (N52) from Tyrellspass to Mullingar is new build the whole way and is of excellent quality. Pity about the lots of poor sections left along the route from Mullingar to Ardee and Birr to Neenagh.


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