FG-Labour ‘would leave Cork Airport debt-free’

ENDA KENNY and Pat Rabbitte will remove the €100 million debt hanging over Cork Airport if their parties are in power after the election.

The pledge was made by a general election candidate who hopes to regain a Dáil seat, which he lost in the 2002 election.

Councillor Paddy Sheehan (FG) made the promise at a Cork County Council meeting amid heated debate which saw opposition parties trying to bait Fianna Fáil over the broken promise to let the Cork Airport Authority (CAA) start its life debt-free.