Article: Proposal to rename Dublin Airport - "Lemass Airport"

Plowman

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Judgement Day

Are you sure this article didn't appear in the April 1st edition of the Tribune?

Morlar

Tom Clarke would be a better candidate in my view.

Judgement Day

Michael O'Leary has done more to bring flying within the reach of the average Joe than anybody why not name it after him?

irishdub14

Fe*k off FF...

Morlar

Feck off Michael O Leary too.

bigar

They should call it "De Valera Airport". The Irish "Aerfort de Valera" will make some unknowing foreigners think it's in Spain :P

JohnC.

You definitely won't have people calling it the Lame-Ass Airport. No siree, not at all.

syklops

When will these feckers realize, we have no money. Changing the name of the airport will cost money. If we have learnt anything from the past, it will probably cost more money than originally planned, and we will be further in the red.

You would think he would have the good sense to keep his mouth shut. Well maybe you wouldn't. :mad:

heyjude

I think where airport names are concerned we need to adopt the same approach as Iarnroid Eireann has adopted in relation to the naming of railway stations. Apparently IE were approached recently to name the docklands station after Stephen Gately, but refused on the grounds that some years ago they had adopted a policy of only naming stations on geographical grounds.

This seems to make perfect sense in that it avoids campaigns by political parties, celebrity fans clubs etc. to have airports, rail and bus stations named after these groups personal favourites. If we renamed Dublin Airport as Lemass Airport, how long would it be before it was proposed to name Shannon and Cork airports after prominent former FF figures too ?

Nope, stop it right now. What's wrong with Dublin's airport being called Dublin Airport ? If it ain't broken !!!!

Besides that, surely Noel Dempsey has more important things to be doing with his time than creating monuments to former FF leaders.

Morlar

I think you can include figures of historical significance to the founding of the state without pandering to party politics or to the disposable celebrity culture. Personally I am not sure if it needs to be named/renamed but if it is going to happen then we should choose very carefully. I would not be completely opposed to Lemass but there are better options than that in my view.

limklad

I am against calling Dublin Airport anything else. It just a huge waste of money of having to resign all roadways in the bloody country around Dublin Airport especially in this recession.

If they are building a new Airport then fair enough, or rename Terminal 2 as Lemass Terminal, but not to change existing airports names. What a waste of Tax payers money in this deep recession time. We already have a black hole known as Anglo Irish. Why else do we need more blacks holes!!

Like Lansdowne Road. I will not be calling it after a so call insurance company. I do not want this country main public/sports infrastructures to be called after companies. It will always be Lansdowne Road to me as it got a long history associated with it.

There was an attempt to call Shannon Airport to call it Limerick Airport as Limerick was the nearest city because of International requirements to change airports name to their nearest city. I am against that as "Shannon Airport" is a brand name in itself. I prefer it to stay as a "neutral name" that most people like, as it serves the Shannon region, not just Limerick city.

Any politician/public/private body who wants to do this should pay out of their own money, not Taxpayers money.

Zoney

limklad wrote: »

I prefer it to stay as a "neutral name" that most people like, as it serves the Shannon region, not just Limerick city.

That makes no sense for international visitors. The River Shannon is a not insignificant length and so it is not immediately obvious to visitors where the airport is.

At the very least, calling it Limerick Shannon Airport would be more helpful and better marketing for Limerick city and the Midwest region (as opposed to a small insignificant New Town and the entire length of the river, most of which isn't really in the airport cachement area).

limklad

Zoney wrote: »

That makes no sense for international visitors. The River Shannon is a not insignificant length and so it is not immediately obvious to visitors where the airport is.

At the very least, calling it Limerick Shannon Airport would be more helpful and better marketing for Limerick city and the Midwest region (as opposed to a small insignificant New Town and the entire length of the river, most of which isn't really in the airport cachement area).

Shannon region is a far bigger region than just Limerick City.
Attaching Limerick to Shannon Airport will never ever rise Limerick Marketing. Only Us Limerick people can do that.
Next thing You probably mention that the City Councillors will try to annex Shannon Airport next!!!

I have Talk to many Foreigners in many countries over the years even to people who have never left their country. When I say I am from Limerick, They bring up "Angela's ashes" or "Stab city". "Does it always rain in Limerick? like the book says" they say to me. Even a Turkish immigration officer brought up when he saw Limerick on my Passport, had a similar question when I was half asleep trying to get through.

I mentioned that I am flying back to "Shannon Airport". They the whole mention the various the counties from Mayo, Galway, Limerick to Kerry & Tipperary and start quiz me on them.

For the Airport sake AND I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT KEPT OPEN, I keep Limerick as far as away from Shannon Airport name. Otherwise it would kill it for sure.

Edit: Limerick City already got an airport. It call "Coonagh Airfield". The City Annex it from the County. You can rename that

BluntGuy

I'll just repeat what I posted in politics on this proposal:

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. This proposal is unnecessary, Dublin Airport works absolutely fine - well, the name, not the airport itself.

Something tells me though that this silly proposal will garner a lot of support, as people's paper-thin sense of nationalism rises to the fore yet again.

There are far more fitting and sensible ways to honour someone's legacy than an expensive and unnecessary exercise in re-branding something that works perfectly well.

For example, since this man is widely regarded as a man who did a lot for our economy, if we really wanted to honour his legacy, perhaps we could've run the economy properly.

Judgement Day

There's a thought now, if FF wanted to really honour Lemass they could wind-up their damn party, as he must be rotating in his grave at the way they have run the country into the ground. :rolleyes:

yermanoffthetv

Kahless wrote: »

You definitely won't have people calling it the Lame-Ass Airport. No siree, not at all.

Haha yea, especially not Americans cos there great at pronouncing Irish names :P

On the idea of the rebranding, I think its a complete brainfart by the minister. As previous posters have mentioned Lemass isnt know outside Ireland, itll cost a fortune to resign EVERYTHING: signposts, websights, stationary ect...There isnt a second airport in Dublin so no need for differentiation (eg Dublin Int/Dub City airport might be confusing)

The government keep telling eveyone that all thier attention is focused on getting the economy back on track, but the cabinet seems to have plenty of time to waste on this crap.

If Lemass was known for making good decisions, he should not be honoured with a bad one.

dubhthach

If we are going to rename the airport can we just rename it back to it's original name: Collinstown

Of course FF*%kers wanted to rename the Dargan bridge in Dundrum to the "Seamus Brennan memorial Bridge" :rolleyes:

John C

The best name for Dublin Airport is "Dublin Airport".

In Munich the "official" name of the airport is Flughafen München-Franz Josef Strauß, Munich Franz Josef Strauss Airport.
Franz Josef Strauß is a now deceased former Prime Minister of Bavaria.

This Airport is seldom referred to as this. Otto Normalverbraucher/Sean Citizen just says Munich Airport.
Calling an airport after a politicain IMHO is pointless.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Airport

charlemont

well i think Cork Airport should be called after Michael Collins anyway seeing as its his home county and in fairness he gave his life for our freedom..
id go with Pearse for Dublin and as much as i hate to say it ,id go with De Valera for Shannon... :cool:

L1011

dubhthach wrote: »

If we are going to rename the airport can we just rename it back to it's original name: Collinstown

I'd see that as being the most likely outcome if we do ever get a second airport (Dublin Collinstown / Dublin Weston); just like Heathrow used to be "London Airport".

Judgement Day

John C wrote: »

The best name for Dublin Airport is "Dublin Airport".

In Munich the "official" name of the airport is Flughafen München-Franz Josef Strauß, Munich Franz Josef Strauss Airport.
Franz Josef Strauß is a now deceased former Prime Minister of Bavaria.

This Airport is seldom referred to as this. Otto Normalverbraucher/Sean Citizen just says Munich Airport.
Calling an airport after a politicain IMHO is pointless.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Airport

A bit like naming railway stations after politicans/patriots. When did anybody last ask for a train ticket to Mallin or Clarke stations? Nonsense undertaken during the reign of that 'great' railway man Todd Andrews.

scudzilla

IMO i really think that they should rename Dublin Airport after a great dubliner, similar to John Lennon Airport in Liverpool.

How does "Stephen Gately International Airport" sound :rolleyes::rolleyes:

L1011

Judgement Day wrote: »

A bit like naming railway stations after politicans/patriots. When did anybody last ask for a train ticket to Mallin or Clarke stations? Nonsense undertaken during the reign of that 'great' railway man Todd Andrews.

Thing is most people might have an idea where those ones are. Well Mallin anyway... Daly and MacDiarmada on the other hand...

DWCommuter

We may as well just rename the ****epile of a country, "BERTIE AHERNSVILLE" while we're at it.

Where do these FF dipsticks get off.:rolleyes:

DWCommuter

charlemont wrote: »

well i think Cork Airport should be called after Michael Collins anyway seeing as its his home county and in fairness he gave his life for our freedom..
id go with Pearse for Dublin and as much as i hate to say it ,id go with De Valera for Shannon... :cool:

Read the Beano instead of the history book.:D

D.L.R.

This country is truly run by cowboys. Yee-haw y'all.

xFROSTY Gx

I've never even heard of "Lemass"

Aard

^That says it all really.

SeanW

:mad:

limklad

scudzilla wrote: »

IMO i really think that they should rename Dublin Airport after a great dubliner, similar to John Lennon Airport in Liverpool.

How does "Stephen Gately International Airport" sound :rolleyes::rolleyes:

Stephen Gately International Airport would be more apply better than lemass with no disrepect to Stephen but you get the message.

You get screwed from behind, screwed in the front and then get T&C rammed down your throat and get rapped of your money from overpriced car parking and by the the "low cost airlines" by them them changing the fine print in their T&C.
Any time I get through that airport, I just getting the feeling raped, abused and felt like a sheep without actually been raped. Very stressful. Of all the airports I gone through that airport is the worst.

KevR

Renaming Dublin Airport after a politician is a crazy idea in my opinion. As MYOB said, if Weston ever became a more important airport then you could rename Dublin Airport as Dublin Collinstown and rename Weston as Dublin Weston.

Zoney wrote: »

That makes no sense for international visitors. The River Shannon is a not insignificant length and so it is not immediately obvious to visitors where the airport is.

At the very least, calling it Limerick Shannon Airport would be more helpful and better marketing for Limerick city and the Midwest region (as opposed to a small insignificant New Town and the entire length of the river, most of which isn't really in the airport cachement area).

limklad wrote: »

Shannon region is a far bigger region than just Limerick City.
Attaching Limerick to Shannon Airport will never ever rise Limerick Marketing. Only Us Limerick people can do that.
Next thing You probably mention that the City Councillors will try to annex Shannon Airport next!!!

I have Talk to many Foreigners in many countries over the years even to people who have never left their country. When I say I am from Limerick, They bring up "Angela's ashes" or "Stab city". "Does it always rain in Limerick? like the book says" they say to me. Even a Turkish immigration officer brought up when he saw Limerick on my Passport, had a similar question when I was half asleep trying to get through.

I mentioned that I am flying back to "Shannon Airport". They the whole mention the various the counties from Mayo, Galway, Limerick to Kerry & Tipperary and start quiz me on them.

For the Airport sake AND I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT KEPT OPEN, I keep Limerick as far as away from Shannon Airport name. Otherwise it would kill it for sure.

Edit: Limerick City already got an airport. It call "Coonagh Airfield". The City Annex it from the County. You can rename that

At the very least, I would like Shannon Airport to be renamed as Limerick Airport. Although, when the the M18 reaches Galway in 3 years time I would consider Shannon Airport to be a local airport for Galway also (in terms of journey time) so I quite like the idea of 'Limerick-Galway Airport' similar to 'Leeds-Bradford' or 'Doncaster-Sheffield'. Galway probably had more tourists during the one single week of Volvo Ocean Race than Shannon town has had in the last few years (no offence to Shannon town but it's never going to attract a significant amount of visitors like Galway or Limerick can).


Something like 9 airports have 'London' in their name, some of these are quite a distance from London (I think Oxford Airport recently changed its name to London Oxford). There's only one reason why these airports want to have 'London' in their name - it will attract more passengers to their airport.

rubensni

There's already a Galway International Airport. Having A Galway-Limerick-Shannon International Airport as well would just confuse the hell out of people.

As for Ireland West Airport Knock :rolleyes:

Morlar

KevR wrote: »

At the very least, I would like Shannon Airport to be renamed as Limerick Airport.

Shannon is known around the world as the last stop airport before america, also historically one of the first to ever have a duty free and one of the oldest airports in Europe etc. It's very well known around the world as a europe into USA airport. Renaming it to Limerick would cause unnecessary confusion and to what end ? Just to give limerick a more positive profile ? My vote would definitely be to keep shannon as it is. There have been multiple decades gone into building up it's name and reputation globally.

Poly

scudzilla wrote: »

How does "Stephen Gately International Airport" sound :rolleyes::rolleyes:

" I'll be late home luv, I got stuck in Gately"

dubhthach

Regarding Shannon, well I've no problems with its current name, however if it must be named surely something like "Mid-West airport" would be most accurate geographic term instead of some sorta "limerick-clare-galway international airport" mess

antoinolachtnai

Dublin Airport was named after a politician, and they changed it. It was called Collinstown Airport.

NFD100

This is a silly season story. With all due respect to Sean Lemass. He is unknown outside of Ireland and hardly a DeGaulle or a Ronald Reagan. Silly stuff

noelfirl

antoinolachtnai wrote: »

Dublin Airport was named after a politician, and they changed it. It was called Collinstown Airport.

Pretty sure the area came before the man.

Empire o de Sun

They did this to thee train stations in 66, we don't need the airports named after any political or republican from the 20's.

If I was going to name an Airport it would be called Rory Gallagher. Cork will probably want that.

But in general, keep politicians away from naming important pieces of infrastructure after their old buddies.

It is surely up to the Airport itself, is it not?

dubhthach

noelfirl wrote: »

Pretty sure the area came before the man.

Indeed, Dublin aiport was built during the 1930's. The runway became operational in early 1940 (though terminal wasn't finished let). This was during FiannaFail's 15years in power.

My dad has a book at home from 1990 celebrating the 50th anniversary of the airport, it's a good read

L1011

antoinolachtnai wrote: »

Dublin Airport was named after a politician, and they changed it. It was called Collinstown Airport.

I don't think Collinstown was named after anyone who lived in recent centuries...

dowlingm

Paddy Finucane Airport?

syklops

dowlingm wrote: »

Paddy Finucane Airport?

The Irish honouring a fellow Irishman who joined the british military? You must be new here.

dowlingm

There was a certain tongue in cheek aspect. Also not sure how the local Lufthansa reps would take it!

syklops

dowlingm wrote: »

There was a certain tongue in cheek aspect. Also not sure how the local Lufthansa reps would take it!

From my experience you would have more problem with Aer Lingus reps than you would from Lufthansa.

Empire o de Sun

dowlingm wrote: »

There was a certain tongue in cheek aspect. Also not sure how the local Lufthansa reps would take it!

Obviously you know lots of people from Germany

Empire o de Sun

Tom Crean, he was an explorer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Crean_%28explorer%29

lee_baby_simms

Phil Lynott International Airport.

mikemac

antoinolachtnai wrote: »

Dublin Airport was named after a politician, and they changed it. It was called Collinstown Airport.

That has nothing to do with any politician called Collins. Well not in the last 100 years anyway
Are you from Swords right? I would have thought you'd know the area being a local.

It was originally called Collinstown Aerodrome and then it became an airport.
Collinstown is the name of the area, probably hundreds of years old at this stage.

dubhthach

feelingstressed wrote: »

That has nothing to do with any politician called Collins. Well not in the last 100 years anyway
Are you from Swords right? I would have thought you'd know the area being a local.

It was originally called Collinstown Aerodrome and then it became an airport.
Collinstown is the name of the area, probably hundreds of years old at this stage.

Well also the fact that the airport was constructed by FF government under DeV makes his statement even more farcical.