John Moran posted about his experience on social media and told Lunchtime Live it “resonated like no other tweet I’ve ever sent”.
The Mayor of Limerick has hit out at the country’s “lopsided” aviation policy after he spent nearly 24 hours travelling from his home to Toulouse.“It was the saga of the trip from Limerick to Toulouse showing up a lot of issues that people across Ireland have really been concerned about,” he said.
There is something seriously wrong with the idea of increasing flights from an airport with this severe overcrowding while leaving millions of capacity unused in Cork and Shannon. Why does the Irish system require me to travel fromMr Moran said he would much rather have flown from Shannon to Toulouse - a French city which he claims has “very many similarities with our own city of Limerick” - but there is currently no direct flight.
“But the flight’s at seven in the morning, so you’re either looking at a through the night bus up to the airport - because you can never get parking in Dublin Airport anyway - or you go up the night before and for many people that means additional costs for a hotel to get these early morning flights.”
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