Watch: Equivalent of one football pitch being laid each night in Shannon Airport runway plan

Maintenance works on Ireland’s longest runway at Shannon Airport means the equivalent of one football pitch is being re-laid between dusk and dawn each night, the airport has revealed.

Maintenance works on Ireland’s longest runway at Shannon Airport means the equivalent of one football pitch is being re-laid between dusk and dawn each night, the airport has revealed.

Shortly before midnight, following the last arrival/departure at Shannon, a team of 90 vehicles and 70 people roll in for over four hours work on the 3,200m runway – among the longest runways in Europe and one of the designated emergency runways for the Space Shuttle prior to cessation of flights.