Shannon Airport has landed in a moral quagmire

On behalf of the justice and peace organisation, Afri, I am revulsed at comments by the head of the Shannon Airport Authority, Rose Hynes, to an Oireachtas committee, as reported in the Irish Examiner.

When asked about Shannon’s reliance on military traffic, Ms Hynes said: “Military traffic has been in the DNA of Shannon for many years.

It is something that is important, it’s lucrative, and we are certainly going to go after it as much as possible.”