Óna Máire Walsh

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Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock · Has the Irish building sector got themselves hooked on Government subsidies? · 24 Jun 2026 podcast

Yeah.

It's a bit of a fallacy as an argument because aviation is determined by demand.

So Cork is growing quite strongly.

Shannon is growing quite strongly, which is brilliant.

Knock Airport, I think, had a million passengers through it for the first time last year.

All that is a good thing.

And it's not binary.

Dublin Airport can grow and the regional airports can grow.

But the idea of directing airplanes and aircraft where to land and where to take off based on some sort of desire of policymakers, it belongs to a different era.

Aviation is now run purely by demand.

If there's enough demand for routes into Cork, an airline will fly into Cork, likewise Shannon or Knock or Farnfor or whatever.

But the vast majority of demand is into Dublin.

That's pretty self-evident as the capital city of a small island.

And remember, Dublin is a hub airport as well, which brings people on to Europe.

So, you know, thankfully Cork and Shannon are growing.

We'd like to see them continue to grow because there's a lot of capacity there.

But we do need to lift that arbitrary cap at Dublin.

OK, Eoin Romero-Walsh, thank you for joining us.

Thanks, Ciarán.

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