Dublin Airport sees Cork as threat, says deputy chief whip

THE Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) should not be allowed “saddle Cork Airport with debt because they see it as a threat”, the Government’s deputy chief whip said yesterday.

Fianna Fáil TD Billy Kelleher has reiterated his stance that the DAA must cover the €160 million cost of Cork’s new terminal.

But his Government colleague Ivor Callely, junior minister at the Department of Transport, has failed to give any such assurance.