State ‘frustrating Aer Rianta break-up’

THE Government was accused last night of frustrating the break-up of Aer Rianta by not supporting a State-appointed board trying to run one of the country’s main airports.

The Cork Airport Authority (CAA) will hold an emergency meeting this morning after it was controversially cut out of a mediation process designed to resolve a bitter row with the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) over who pays for Cork’s new passenger terminal.

A CAA source said board members viewed the development with alarm.