New golf club boosts Kerry Airport business

The opening of an exclusive golf club on a headland in south Kerry has contributed to a “significant” increase in business for Kerry Airport, the latter’s AGM has heard.

Profits grew by a third at the airport last year, as passenger numbers climbed by 9%, the meeting at the Earl of Desmond Hotel, in Tralee, heard. Operating profit, after taxation, for 2018, of €966,056, was up 33% on the €728,626 recorded in 2017. Total passenger numbers grew to 365,339, up from 335,480.