IT might have seemed as if nothing moved in construction and infrastructure in Ireland in the year that most will rather forget.

SHANNON airport is operating with both hands behind its back and in the impossible situation of having to compete against its employer, the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA), and the newly opened T2.

Passengers passed through Dublin Airport's Terminal 2 today as the new €600m project was officially opened.

RYANAIR has announced it is cutting back on flights out of Dublin Airport, including a 50% reduction in its daily services to Cork from next year.

The new €600m terminal at Dublin airport was taken for a test flight today as volunteers helped check out the facilities.

A STRIKE by lift and escalator engineers threatens to disrupt services at hospitals, shopping centres and other major public facilities from today.

Ryanair is to further reduce its operations at Dublin Airport and transfer 100 jobs to other European countries.

The recent closure of Irish and European airspace due to the Icelandic volcano cost airports in Ireland €8m, according to the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA).

Four hundred new retail jobs are set to be created with the opening of Terminal Two at Dublin Airport later this year.

THE space you allocate to letters is not large enough for me to address all of the untruths contained in Michael O’Leary’s letter (December 3), so instead I will merely tackle the three most blatant falsehoods.

THE Aviation Regulator has given the green light to a 26% increase in passenger charges at Dublin Airport next year, on condition that the controversial second terminal (T2) is completed.

PAUL MILLS’S column headlined ‘Inefficiencies see money poured down drain’ (November 12) contained a number of inaccuracies relating to the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) and the construction of Terminal Two (T2) at Dublin airport.

PASSENGER charges at Dublin Airport are set to rise by almost 13% next year based on proposed increases announced by the Commission for Aviation Regulation (CAR).

A MAJOR cost-cutting programme will see job cuts and increased charges at the country’s three main airports this year.

The first elements of the steel frame for Dublin Airport’s new passenger terminal T2 were erected today.

Construction started this morning on Terminal Two, the new €395m new passenger terminal at Dublin Airport.

RYANAIR has applied for a judicial review of An Bord Pleanála’s decision upholding planning permission for the Dublin Airport Authority’s new terminal, T2.

Ryanair, announced today that it has applied for a judicial review of An Bord Pleanála’s decision upholding planning permission for a €800m second terminal in Dublin Airport.

THE aviation regulator has dealt the Dublin Airport Authority a severe blow in its efforts to recover the €1.2 billion airport expansion cost, by ruling out a demand for a rise in passenger charges.

Charges for travellers flying from Dublin Airport will remain the same for the next two years, the Aviation Regulator announced today.

THE Dublin Airport Authority has claimed that its proposed second terminal at Dublin Airport is arguably “the most important public building in a generation.”

RYANAIR has accused the Dublin Airport Authority of “monopoly abuse” over its plans to press ahead with a controversial second terminal at Dublin Airport.

Plans for an “elegant” €395m terminal at Dublin Airport are to be lodged this week.

AN intense battle for the contract to build a new terminal at Dublin Airport is underway.