US military flights landing at Shannon 'seriously undermining' Irish neutrality, says TD

Neutrality campaigner Dr Edward Horgan, believes that supplies on the US planes are 'most likely going on to Israel'

Concerns have repeatedly been raised by campaigners that the Irish state has no way of checking if military aircraft landing at Shannon is carrying weaponry. File photo: AP/John Cogill

More than 220,000 US soldiers have travelled through Shannon Airport over the last three-and-a-half years, new figures show.

Over the last three years, the most American troops passed through Shannon Airport in 2022, where there were 83,037 soldiers transiting, according to figures provided by the Department of Transport.