Security system at small airports ‘up to standard’

AN INTERNAL Customs review of security at the country’s smaller airports has endorsed the system being used.

The review was set up after a plane based at Weston aerodrome in Co Kildare was impounded by police in Belgium last September following the seizure of up to 50kg of heroin at an airfield there.

Setting up the review, Finance Minister Brian Cowen said it was of “major concern” to Revenue that the plane had flown out from, and was based at, Weston aerodrome.