Dublin Airport New Runway/Infrastructure.

I don't disagree with that. I've point out their nonsense in multiple post. Didn't get a response, but that's expect when you point out distorted data, or to put it another way, complete waffle.

The affected villages in East Meath (Ashbourne, Ratoath, Dunshaughlin, Kilbride, etc) have been there long before the airport and have generations of families living there, with the problems only existing since the opening of the north runway.

Your ignorance is off the charts!

You seem to have some inside knowledge nobody else has. If you think the cap gets lifted permanently very soon, then you are deluded. And the term is 'moot', not 'mute'. Hard to take your post seriously for a number of reasons.

I do live in the affected area. I've always been up front about that. And anybody on here (including yourself) who doesn't live in those areas should comment on the noise level, because you don't know what you're talking about.

Yeah, sure. Do what you like! Nobody is stopping you.

Why don't we just bulldoze swords for a third runway 😉

At risk of stating the obvious.
Those US passengers have the option of Shannon or Dublin now. The fact that the passengers numbers are seeing large increases in Dublin, but not Shannon pretty much confirms that they do in fact want to come to Dublin. Which really undermines your argument.

That isn't how airline routes work.

Airlines moved flights from Shannon to Dublin as the demand wasn't there at Shannon. Philadelphia, Toronto etc. People don't want to go to Shannon and won't take well to being forced - they'll go somewhere else entirely.

Airlines aren't going to introduce flights at Shannon unless there is demand or a huge pile of money thrown at it. So, like the other poster, do you want piles and piles of money incinerated so that someone in Shannon comes on here and moans about noise rather than you?

How do you propose to do that? Pay the airlines to fly there? As in taxpayer subsidies? Is that a wise use of our money? How else would you suggest this is done? Perhaps a forced stopover like the "good ole days"?

Hand-waving away valid points taking your argument apart isn't effective.

People just didn't fly. It didn't matter that Dublin wasn't capped - when forced to go to Shannon instead, they went somewhere else entirely.

The exact same would apply now - people aren't going to go to Shannon by force.

You want us to incinerate millions paying airlines to fly empty aircraft to Shannon so someone else can have some mild inconvenience. Turbo-NIMBYism.

No, I'm pointing out the gaping holes and fallacies in your micron-thin argument; all of which is trying to hide your turbo NIMBYism behind something. You aren't making valid points in the slightest, and ignore when they're torn to bits.

What you're trying to claim now is simply untrue and easily disproved. Shannon had a brand new terminal, Dublin was operating out over an overcrowded 30 year old one.

People still didn't want to go to Shannon and as a result didn't go anywhere.

Your final line is entirely about you wanting the incineration of millions of euro for your benefit alone.

There are more options into Dublin because there is more demand. You do understand that flight numbers are based on supply and demand. If airlines could sell more tickets from Shannon they would. They aren't turning people away.

What you are basically suggesting is that they should under supply flights seats to dublin, and fly half full planes from Shannon in force people over. That's absolutely bonkers.