{"id":282130,"date":"2026-02-05T13:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T13:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/282130\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T13:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T13:02:09","slug":"dublin-airport-chief-kenny-jacobs-steps-down-from-daa-as-high-court-action-settled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/282130\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin Airport chief Kenny Jacobs steps down from DAA as High Court action settled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BREAKING\u00a0|\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DAA chief executive Kenny Jacobs at Dublin Airport. Picture: Gerry Mooney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/00f21427-3257-4687-851c-eb3618362045.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">DAA chief executive Kenny Jacobs at Dublin Airport. Picture: Gerry Mooney<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Kenny Jacobs will voluntarily step down as chief executive of DAA after he settled a High Court action brought against the State airport operator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Mr Jacobs initiated the action against DAA after he was suspended by the company in December, pending a new investigation into 20 allegations made against him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BREAKING\u00a0|\u00a0 DAA chief executive Kenny Jacobs at Dublin Airport. Picture: Gerry Mooney Kenny Jacobs will voluntarily step down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11900,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-282130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-dublin-airport","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}