Cork’s ‘Taj Mahal’ took wing in Dublin

MY fellow Dubliner Peter Molloy has accused Cork people of building a Taj Mahal airport (Irish Examiner letters, April 9).

He needs to be told the project was totally controlled by Aer Rianta head office, including design, scheduling, budgeting, and ‘consultation’ with interested parties. Ryanair was quite rightly blunt and forthright in its opposition to the profligacy of these people. But Ryanair’s view was ignored.

From my knowledge of the project I can assure Mr Molloy that if Cork people had been given a say it would have cost significantly less, the design would be more practical, passengers would not have to climb 26 steps, ongoing maintenance would be far less challenging and Cork passengers would be able to find their way around the complex.

Far more worrying now is the fact that mostly the same people are in control of the billions being spent at Dublin airport.

The ‘Taj Mahal’ in Cork will be a pimple on an elephant by comparison when they get through with their Dublin extravaganza.

Perhaps the ‘controllers’ of the Cork project should be stored with Roy Keane’s manager of the month gongs — in a garage.

Anton K Carroll

Barnhall Road

Dalkey

Co Dublin