Taoiseach brands Belarus bomb threat comments on Ryanair flight as 'nonsense'

The Belarussian grounding of a Ryanair flight amounts to "aviation piracy", the Foreign Affairs Minister has said.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has described comments by the Government of Belarus as “nonsense”.

Belarus state media said Mr Lukashenko personally ordered a MiG-29 fighter jet to escort the flight he was on to Minsk after a bomb threat was received while it was over Belarus territory.