Cheltenham, Six Nations, and St Patrick's festivities bring 1m passengers through Irish airports

Cork Airport is expecting 53,000 passengers over St Patrick's Day weekend.

Some 53,000 passengers are expected to travel through Cork Airport the bank holiday weekend as Irish airports heave for one of the busiest St Patrick’s festival air traffic ever.

In Cork, Friday, March 13 will be the busiest day of the weekend for arrivals. Passenger numbers have been boosted this week by the exodus of punters flying to the UK for the Cheltenham Festival.  Ryanair added additional services to Birmingham this week to cater for the increased demand.