Share Dublin airport spoils with Cork

GOVERNMENT policy on Cork airport makes a mockery of its supposed commitment to decentralisation and regional development.

The Transport Minister says Cork needs to survive on its own, without aid from Dublin airport.

If that is the case, then Dublin airport should not be made a gift of the eight Great Southern Hotels (or the 25% share in City Hotel in Derry), or the airport joint ventures in Dusseldorf, Hamburg and Birmingham, or the duty-free shops in Moscow, St Petersburg, Ukraine, Canada and JFK in New York.