US plane that carried weapons through Shannon was not checked for cluster bombs

Cluster bombs on display in Lebanon at a 2011 meeting of states seeking to enforce the ban that was originally hosted by Ireland. File picture: Mohammed Zaatari/AP

A US aircraft carried weapons through Shannon Airport last weekend, but was not checked for cluster bombs, the Department of Transport has confirmed.

Last Saturday, an Omni Air aircraft on contract to the US military and using a US Transportation Command callsign landed at Shannon Airport having flown from Anchorage in Alaska, having arrived there from Savannah in Georgia.