Waterford Airport.

Great you Googled again! Selectively though! You don't know what straw manning is. Or to be more accurate you are playing the old trick of "Accusation in a mirror". Do the Comers speculate? Yes they do. Is that all they do? No its isn't! Is speculation part of their business? Yes it is! Is that illegitimate? No it isn't! Have they built stuff on the the land they purchased. Yes they have! Do they "hoard" property indefinitely? No they don't. You may as well claim that their core business is horse breeding. It would be no less ridiculous. You absolutely refuse to acknowledge that the land is obviously an incentive if it is contractually tied to development within a given time period or that the risk of indefinitely "hoarding" land can easily be mitigated against. They have done this with the North Quays. They can easily do it here.

P.S. Before you accuse me of "personal attacks" keep in mind your condescending tone when I initially asked you a civil question. Again "accusation in a mirror'.

Again why are you in denial about the fact that that these concerns can be mitigated against legally? Why are you in denial about the fact that you set the tone for this argument when I asked you a perfectly civil question? That is what is bizarre here. Once again the "accusations in a mirror", which seems to be your crutch at this point. Read your posts for god's sake

If you can't even understand a basic concept of aviation economics being that it's harder to fill a larger airplane, then I don't think there's really any point in continuing to discuss this with you.

That's actually hilarious that you think that's why I'm here and shows again that you don't have the first clue what you're on about. Galway airport was another dead duck that was correctly cut off from the government financial tap once the M6 opened. The "sit-in" the staff held at the time was comically unsuccessful as well. Presumably they eventually all just gave up and went home.

There are already enough operational airports in the state, if anything there might be one too many already. We definitely don't need any more - particularly one in a hopeless location that can only hope to operate off the back of significant ongoing subsidy.

Funny you weren't calling Galway a dead duck before. Or Knock for that matter which you are practically championing. Knock is literally in the middle of nowhere. In mo mans land between Castlebar and Carrick on Shannon! The location of Knock is a hell of a lot less feasible than Waterford. My point still stands that you are not here to have a bona fide discussion.

To be fair Knock airport is in a very good location. Sure it’s quite rural in itself but it’s very central for the whole west of Ireland and the north midlands and close to several national routes and a railway line. Several large towns within an hour or 90mins away and a strong tourist area central to

Agreed, the coastal location of WAT kinda limits its catchment in that sense as its central to counties north / east and west but not south of it well unless you count Tramore

So your position is this: on completion of the extension Waterford would be the only full-length runway airport on the island without a low cost carrier?

What would be the reasons for this exceptionalism? What makes an extended Waterford Airport so special that it would be outlier?

So the coastal location of Cork doesn't hinder it at all? All this argument and justification about strategic investment in a small regional facility, just like we had to justify 24/7 cardiology or a motorway to Dublin. Substitute 24/7 for airport in all of the above and the rationale is the same. People trying to tell us for whatever reason that we should not have it. Well the second word is off!

Will all the naysayers ever realise that we "wants it" and we'll keep plugging until we get it?

It's a dubious Marian shrine with an international airport. That's all that need be said. Paid for by lobbying Charlie Haughey and transactional politics.

Too many tosspots here

we need to rail this country, and fast, you ll find most other similar countries have far greater scale of rail, compared to ourselves, another major failing of governments, past and present, wouldnt be worrying about it though, as it wont happen, your kids will be the ones picking up the pieces though, so no long term damage there!

its all the areas in between is the issue, we havent implemented a functioning rail network all over the country, we actually dismantled it over the century, which is now resulting in serious issues, causing serious economic and social dysfunctions, i.e. centralisation of economic activities, particularly around the dublin region, this in turn is causing serious strain on other critical infrastructure such as our energy, water infrastructures, housing etc etc etc

…and the only way to deal with this serious transport deficit, is the private car, especially fossil fueled private cars, and no, we re not all gonna move lock stock over to ev's anytime soon!

…and the fact, we re not gonna rail the country anytime soon, so fossil fueled cars it ll be!

…and remember, some can actually work on the train, best of luck with doing that while driving a car, or god forbid, on a bus!

…again, dont worry, this isnt gonna change anytime soon, as we re gonna keep effectively electing the same governments, over and over, as will be the case on the 29th….

wanna bet! i know some that have and do, being able to efficiently move employees and stock around is a critical function of a business, hence why many prefer to locate near dublin and/or near the east coast, and less so elsewhere!

….again, by not having effective transport networks, including rail, outside of the east coast, this in turn is forcing businesses, not just mnc's, but also sme's, in which the majority of the workforce works, to locate so…..

…but again, dont worry, this isnt gonna change!

…if you re wondering where some of that 14 billion should be going, i.e. long term transport infrastructure, and not just being giving out like confetti!

…but again, dont worry, it wont be!