{"id":543885,"date":"2026-07-11T04:38:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T04:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/543885\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T04:38:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T04:38:21","slug":"senator-calls-for-review-to-maximise-shannon-airport-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/543885\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Calls For Review To Maximise Shannon Airport Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Transport Minister is being urged to develop a review to maximise the use of Shannon Airport.<\/p>\n<p>It follows a Seanad Debate on the Dublin Passenger Cap Bill, which if passed would lift the restriction limiting the airport to 32 million flyers per year.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Dublin Airport accounted for 85% of Irish Passenger Traffic, while Shannon accepted just over 2 million passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Aubrey McCarthy has told the Seanad that balance is needed.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full address here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Transport Minister is being urged to develop a review to maximise the use of Shannon Airport. It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-543885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543885","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=543885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}