Waterford Airport.

A FF candidate. Not as if they are in Government already and can open it at the click of their fingers if they want

She is just picking a relevant topic in each of the Counties where she is looking for votes, she doesn't give a monkeys about the airport.

Excuse my ignorance to politics but regarding Cynthia Ní Mhurchú last time I checked FF made up the government already, so why can they not just go ahead with this now and stop leaving a small minority (the greens) control this. She is pitching this as if they are in opposition now trying to get into power, maybe i don't understand the ins and outs , I just want to be able to fly to Luton and Birmingham is all locally. 🤣

Ah here, it's only an hour from Dungarven to Cork airport and it's only an hour and 45 minutes from Waterford to the largest airport on the island and one of the 15 largest in Europe. And there's a motorway the whole way. Nobody's keeping anyone apart from anyone.

A key feature of the airport issue is the exhaustion of political bullshit on the issue.

With FF and Greens in the 2007-11 era the runway was originally promised, FG have consistently said they want to see it happen, in PfG as part of the Halligan deal, Greens have said they are not opposed. Bullshit (after Harry Frankfurt- On Bullshit - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit ) is speech intended to persuade without regard for truth. All of the parties have said they want it, Greens (2007-2011) FF (2011-2011; C&S 2016-2020; 2020+) and FG (2011+) have not made it happen.

Basically, the runway is under construction before the end of this Government; or these political parties have simply and, in a very pure way, bullshitted the people of the South East for almost 20 years.

Your post emanates from some hole or other.

I agree with mr Waterford in your pocket fb page time to say no votes for government parties unless we see real action on airport .

M50: Dublin motorists and people taking flights warned of severe delays after crash

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/05/17/dublin-motorists-and-people-taking-flights-warned-of-severe-delays-after-m50-crash/

I considered using the bus from Waterford to Dublin but my return flight was late so it wouldn’t have worked for me. It also takes a long time to get there. You’re looking at 6 hours of Irish travel in total before you’ve stepped on a plane to go anywhere in Europe.

2 to get to Dublin (if you’ve been gargling holy water), 2 in the airport, 2 home again.

Where I was staying, I got a train direct to the airport (1st class, quiet carriage €20) and did some work on the train. Everything seemed so much simpler and less dependent on the place where you live being ridden of services to impress voters elsewhere.

https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/waterford-airport-runway-build-faces-delay-as-government-continues-to-assess-12m-funding/a173829816.html

Likely not happening until next year now.

Ryan was in town today with hands swinging as usual

Anyone with any common sense should not vote for the Greens in the Local,European and General Elections. Ryan is the worst transport minister I think the state has ever had.

I agree Ryan is a Muppet but FG and FF are also part of this government, and FG have been since 2011.

Just like aspirations for a University of Waterford they also have zero aspirations for Waterford Aiport

How much cash are the Comers proposing to put up , ? I saw an article a while back that was implying that their purchase of the airport was their contribution. Not sure if that's the case

From a Waterford perspective he could give us the extension in the morning if he actually wanted to. This is the problem he doesn’t.

Way too little too late.. Even her statement is wishy washy

You know that if demand was that high, the existing airport has sufficient runway to run services at a higher cost to anywhere in the UK; and indeed as far away as Germany/Spain with specific models of aircraft, right? Because all of this actually happened before. I used to fly out of WAT to the UK pre-T2 opening in Dublin as the longer drive from Kildare was made up for by the ease of use.

The NW has an even more limited airport and has service to the UK.

Central Government are never going to provide an entirely new airport anywhere in the country off their own bat, and Waterford have got themselves tied to exceptionally unreliable businessmen (see the Sentinel and the Dublin Sports Hotel) - they need to receive significant amounts of blame here.

Realistically, Ryan could announce state funding tomorrow and I'd still expect nothing to happen due to the Comers.

But we have no idea the type and context of the information being requested. It could all be deliberate delay tactics from the department. Like the money that is wasted daily in this country with no accountability yet we need to move mountains for 7 million for a piece of infrastructure that will improve the economy of the region. It’s political will and it’s not coming from the government especially the Greens and Ryan!

As ive said before 12 million is absolutely nothing in this context, the govt literally have a surplus of 8 billion euro ffs. There is absolutely no need for them to have to ask all these questions to the airport and spend 6 months and counting to review this. No, im not saying money should just be thrown at every project ever without questioning, but with this it's not only like i said a small amount, but also has obvious benefits to the region. i was hopeful that we'd see work being done in 2024 but those hopes are fading fast.

I also have no doubt pre the general election the government will state that the business case is solid and they fully support it but unless we see machinery on site it will be more shite talk