Galway Airport site ‘an ideal IT hub’

Galway’s two local authorities are to employ consultants to carry out a feasibility study on the 115-acre site that contains Galway Airport.

Last November, Galway city and county councils purchased the site for €1.1m in a bid to ensure that the economic potential of the large strategic tract of land was realised.

The move followed the State ending subsidies for the airport in 2011, which led to a gradual withdrawal of commercial air services from the facility.