Mercury spill forces closure of Air Corps hangar at Baldonnel airbase

The spill occurred in the same hangar that recently hosted the Aviation and Aerospace Careers Expo, AvCon 2025. File picture: Sasko Lazarov/© RollingNews.ie

A toxic mercury spill temporarily shut down one of the Air Corps’ hangars, the Defence Forces have confirmed.

Details of the spill first emerged in an email sent on Monday by a commandant at Air Corps Headquarters in Casement Airbase, Baldonnel. He warned “all personnel” that Hangar No 4 was closed “due to a mercury spillage.”