{"id":330228,"date":"2026-03-05T12:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/330228\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T12:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:10:08","slug":"major-new-transport-link-to-ireland-west-airport-proposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/330228\/","title":{"rendered":"Major new transport link to Ireland West Airport proposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A proposal for a new bus service linking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayonews.ie\/section\/3234\/ballina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Ballina<\/a> to Ireland West Airport was unveiled at yesterday\u2019s (Wednesday, February 4) NTA Oireachtas briefing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The proposal would see an Airport Shuttle Bus connect with the Route 22 Ballina to Dublin Bus at Charlestown.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Dara Calleary said, \u201cI will be continuing to liaise with the NTA in the coming weeks prior to the proposal being adopted and commenced, and will update accordingly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The proposal comes as new resurfacing works began yesterday (Wednesday, February 4) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayonews.ie\/news\/claremorris\/2029824\/mayo-travellers-advised-of-important-changes-at-ireland-west-airport.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Ireland West Airport, Knock, as part of its ongoing transformation programme, with\u00a0upgrades focused on improving parking facilities for passengers with Reduced Mobility (PRM)\u00a0and Blue Badge holders.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A proposal for a new bus service linking Ballina to Ireland West Airport was unveiled at yesterday\u2019s (Wednesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16570,61,60,21668,103395,8764,43],"class_list":["post-330228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-dara-calleary","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ireland-west-airport","tag-knock","tag-mayo","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330228","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=330228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}