Industry ‘facing disaster if strategic link broken’
“The Government must be active in retaining a Shannon to Heathrow air bridge. Its removal would be the equivalent of a major communication disaster,” he said.
In the past, Dr Walsh angered pro-Shannon lobby groups by supporting Open Skies and the abolition of protectionism at Shannon through government-given concessions on transatlantic routes. He claimed some enterprises were already moving from the western part of Ireland to more labour-intensive markets in eastern Europe, India and China.
