Our door is open for talks, Shannon chief tells O’Leary

FOLLOWING Michael O’Leary’s latest broadside at Shannon and its dealings with his airline, a member of the airport authority yesterday invited the Ryanair boss to sit down and talk business.

Mr O’Leary forecast sheep would be grazing on the airport runway over the refusal of the Shannon Airport Authority (SAA) and its parent company, the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA), to do a deal with Ryanair to open up new routes.

Speaking at a tourism briefing at Limerick’s Radisson Hotel, Vincent Cunnane moved to open new dialogue with the swashbuckling airline boss who wants Shannon and Dublin to pay him for delivering increased passenger numbers rather than the other way round.