Dublin Airport New Runway/Infrastructure.

So if the limit were really strictly enforced and say a couple of million passengers were to fly from Shannon and Cork instead, what would that do for climate change? All those extra car and bus journeys.

The ultimate logic of this is to ban or ration all kinds of travel and other activities which cause emissions.

Climate change is a real and pressing issue, but so are basic individual freedoms, something which often escapes Green extremists.

Steve, in the interests of full disclosure re the buses, that Facebook video was not exactly truthful, and didn’t explain the context as Bus Éireann’s response pointed out.

I take your wider point, and I fully agree with you regarding the airport and the critical role it plays, but that video was rather biased in trying to push an agenda.

Good job the cap isn't retrospective|

I can imagine some lunatic arguing that of you breached the cap by 45,000 in 2023 you should claw it back in 2024, so the burghers of Fingal can have some more sleep. 😂

Transit passengers don't create any surface transport. But I think that argument has been tried, and denied, by Fingal Coco (or maybe the Noise Regulatory side of them). Utter nonsense, of course, and completely illogical. And I wonder how much daa contributes to Fingal's business rates? Gotta be north of €10m

Remember the Shannon stopover and how it knackered the development of trnsatlantic traffic from Dublin for decades? Well, those Clare politicians haven't gone away you know. Some of them want to limit numbers at Dublin so Shannon can get more flights. Depressing gombeen stuff:

I love the choice of aircraft in the picture: shows how much the Clare Champion knows about aviation.

The owners of Manchester airport must be salivating at the number of new routes coming their way over the next few years that should have come to Dublin over this stupidity if it isn't fixed fast.

It's another reason we need the Greens out. This is part of a much bigger pattern of self harming, self defeating ideological mindlessness that will ultimately have serious negative impacts on this country both finacial and societal.

It's a report on a planning application and some of the objections made. The planning process is (thankfully) independent of Government and, according to another recent IT report, as well as this one, the airlines have put in plenty of submissions in favour of the DAA plans. It's the job of the planners to decide what weight should be attached to the arguments made in the vaious submissions. Whether the Greens are in Government or not does not have a major bearing (if any) on the outcome, I would suggest.

considering 30,000 people are “disturbed” from the north runway according to some, and that the population of Fingal is nearly 300,000, 380 observations doesn’t exactly add up to a lot. Take some away from that 380 figure due to the airlines lodging observations in favour of the infrastructure and it leaves even less. Also when you consider the population that would be/ is exposed to some noise, from either ends of all 3 runways, DCC, Meath county council (east), and Fingal constituencies, 300 applications shouldn’t exactly be taken into too much consideration when the economic benefits to 5 million across Ireland is compared with it.

Not the first time and just the usual Ryanair tactics but I agree with everything in that piece.

To blame for what?

It's a free country and they are entitled to register their views. It's the planners' job to make their decision independently of Government, taking all factors into account.

There’s a lot of government support for it don’t forget. Finance minster is the latest to come out with his support.

Surely the ABP decision on the night flights must be due very soon? The time frame for these decisions is ridiculous.