Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has officially opened Future Mobility Campus Ireland (FMCI) in Shannon, County Clare, Ireland’s first full-scale development centre and test-bed for mobility technologies.
Passengers from a flight that made an emergency landing at Shannon Airport on Wednesday had to be bussed across the country to hotels ‘near’ Dublin, as there weren’t enough rooms available in the Shannon area.
ASL Aviation Holdings, which has a base at Shannon Airport, has completed the extension and upsizing of its existing debt facility with leading international financial institution, Goldman Sachs.
Shannon looks set to receive a welcome boost with the news that Spanish low-cost airline Vueling will commence a twice weekly service to Paris from September.
Shannon Airport expects to welcome over 35,000 passengers through its doors over the June bank holiday weekend. This is an 87% return on passenger numbers over the same period in 2019.
Independent Clare TD Michael McNamara has highlighted the need to improve services on the direct Limerick to Dublin rail line, which passes through Castleconnell (Limerick) Birdhill, Nenagh, Cloughjordan, Roscrea (Tipperary) and Ballybrophy (Laois).