Inside Cork Airport’s €200m redevelopment and plans for Luas link and transatlantic flights

Record passenger growth drives major terminal expansion, new security screening, solar farm investment and push for better public transport links

It's lunchtime on a Thursday, and the good-natured whoops and hollers coming from the departures lounge at Cork Airport signal the excitement of a group preparing for a midweek getaway.

Meanwhile, there’s a relative calm in the arrivals hall as it awaits an afternoon wave of commercial flights from Birmingham, Manchester, London, Alicante, Tenerife, and two from Paris, all in 60 minutes.