Regional airport subsidies to cease

TRANSPORT Minister Leo Varadkar has said that he intends to phase out subsidies for regional airports altogether.

He said that it was “political cowardice that it was ever allowed to happen” that there was an airport for every county down the west and south coasts.

“We have a ridiculous situation where we have an airport if you follow the coastline: One in Donegal, one in Mayo, one in Galway, one in Shannon covering Limerick and Clare, another in Kerry, another one in Cork and another in Waterford.