Irish soccer fans give airlines red card as cost of flights to Estonia skyrockets

DIEHARD Irish soccer fans might have to dig deeper than the players for the playoff against Estonia — and that’s just to get there.

The delight of drawing Estonia, perhaps the easiest team to face to reach Euro 2012, was quickly replaced with anxious glances to bank balances as the cost of flights to the Baltic capital quickly began to skyrocket.

All sorts of permutations were running through the minds of football fans — fly directly to Tallin from Dublin or London; fly to Helsinki and get a ferry across the Gulf of Finland to Tallin; or even just get to Riga in Latvia and take a bus up the coast.