{"id":424772,"date":"2026-04-30T07:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/424772\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T07:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:27:08","slug":"ireland-west-and-donegal-airports-to-benefit-from-regional-airports-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/424772\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland West and Donegal Airports to benefit from Regional Airports funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland West and Donegal Airports will benefit from an 8 million euro funding package being allocated to regional airports over the next four years.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Minister for Transport says the money will boost safety and security while helping airports reach their carbon reduction targets.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Overall, 7.9 million euro will be divided between Shannon, Ireland West, Kerry and Donegal airports.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shannon will receive 1.9 million for a new security perimeter fence and a replacement tender for the fire service there.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2.8 million euro of the funding will go towards projects at Ireland West including a body scanner, an upgrade to the electrics and an automated weather observing service.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u20ac367,000 has been allocated under the Regional Airports Programme for Donegal Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The funding will support investment in safety and security, alongside projects with a sustainability focus.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Transport Minister Darragh O&#8217;Brien says the funding supports &#8220;connectivity and balanced regional development, while seeking to maximise the use of existing capacity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland West and Donegal Airports will benefit from an 8 million euro funding package being allocated to regional&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-424772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424772","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=424772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}