Airport cleared in false alarm

HUNDREDS of passengers travelling through Cork Airport were forced to flee the facility yesterday after a false alarm led to a full-scale evacuation.

At about 11.20am, all staff and passengers in the tourist hub were ordered out of the building when the internal emergency alarm system warned of a security breach.

Staff and passengers – preparing to jet off to destinations like Mallorca, Paris, Tenerife and London – were ordered to leave the building and wait a safe distance away.