Wallace isn’t responsible for risk from Shannon

Joan Burton has accused Mick Wallace of putting Irish people at risk, by highlighting the US military use of Shannon (Irish Examiner, December 18).

Apart from flip-flopping on the issue, there’s another double standard here.

When the Irish government first offered the use of Shannon to the US military, did they think of the potential risk of putting troops and military cargo (which potentially could include explosives) on the tarmac not far from civilian flights in an airport that doesn’t have adequate security nor safety measure for military operations?