DAA chief to attend summit on Cork Airport debt

The head of the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) has agreed to attend a crisis summit on Cork Airport with Fine Gael TDs this week.

Cork North West TD Áine Collins, who requested the meeting, broke ranks with her party colleagues last night and confirmed she will be asking DAA chairman Pádraig Ó Ríordáin “to park” Cork Airport’s debt.

The legacy debt issue, associated with the construction of its terminal building a decade ago, has been blamed for an alarming decline in passenger numbers through Cork in the last 12 months.