Holiday flight forced to divert to Cork Airport

A holiday flight made an emergency landing at Cork Airport last night after a passenger was reported to have suddenly fallen ill.

Thomas Cook Airlines flight TCX-26UP was travelling from Tenerife in the Canary Islands to Glasgow at the time.

Shortly after 6pm, while the Airbus A321-200 jet was about 200km south of Cork, the crew alerted air traffic controllers to their emergency.