Calls to clear airport’s debts

Thousands of jobs can be created for Shannon Airport and the wider mid-west if the Government moves to establish a debt-free, independent Shannon Airport.

That is the view of the chairman of the Mid-west Regional Authority, Cllr Joe Leddin (Lab), who was speaking at a special meeting on the future of Shannon yesterday.

At the airport’s Park Inn hotel, Mr Leddin said: “If the new structure can start off debt free then I believe there is a bright future for Shannon Airport and we can, through creating a centre of excellence based on aviation activities, create thousands of jobs for the mid-west in the years ahead.”