Waterford Airport.

He has no real power unfortunately but at least he's asks awkward questions that the other should asking.

He annoys them anyway.

Maybe there will be an indy grouping after the GE?

And yes I know it would be chaotic and unstable!

Matt highlights the failures of the others. If it were not for him we wouldn’t have a clue what’s going on. The arrogance of Marc is on another level. Election time can’t come quickly enough.

"Cultural horsing enthusiasts", lovely people

Correct but what difference does it make? You could spend 2-300 million upgrading the n25 and have zero return from it.

At the end of the day the airport is an infrastructure project, over time one would expect government support to be less and less, even it if was costing 1.5 million per year for the first 10 years that's still small change in the scheme of government spending.

All the talk should be done, either government say yes or no, either way they need to cut the **** and give an answer they either want to support the airport or they don't and no matter what any of us say it think it will have no impact.

I think a lot of people in Waterford would support this!

People invested before. I have shares somewhere. I completely disagree with the idea. If the government was giving our dinners we'd be starving.

https://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/border/1485755/airport-near-kilkenny-could-become-irelands-first-dedicated-centre-for-aerospace-research.html

Interesting isochrone work, but you need a few more in a series to explore the issue of airport coverage- typically 15-90 min are used.

There is more to it than people just going on sun holidays, your are missing the business element and chance of increase FDI.

Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway, cities all thriving.

All have airports on their doorstep (Galway not on its doorstep by 1 hour either side and they are in either Shannon or Knock)

Anyone in Waterford going to cork is a 4 hour trip, two hour drive and be there two hours before your flight.

Someone travelling for business reason this is a big issue.

You also say it would be millions wasted, it would be far cheaper developing Waterford airport than bypassing the town's along the n25.

Expanding Waterford might also mean that people from dungarvan would use Waterford as an alternative to Cork and Waterford airport would be tapping into the 500k population of the South East.

Aparantly Eamon Ryan is visiting Waterford on Friday.. Here's hoping he's bringing 12m with him

Coming down with anything other than a funding guarantee would be disastrous for them...

Well at least we can suffer in the knowledge that closing Waterford airport will have saved the world from climate change. Can anyone smell that coal smoke from China?

Bicycles. Now that's the level of the Green Party!

Seriously???

Airport board member Jim Griffin was on the radio last week saying that the Dep of Transport have issued a list of questions on the business case to the airport which they may need some time to respond to. Also does the increase in funding from the originally approved 5 million pre covid need to go through cabinet again?..I dont know the answer to that one. But anyone expecting Eamon Ryan to be coming down today to announce the money might be a bit premature. Maybe that's the reason he cancelled his trip, he discovered once people were aware of his visit that expectation was high of an announcement on the airport funding, that to come with his arms swinging would not go down well and has decided to postpone until he has something positive to tell us.