As the aviation industry continues to call for the passenger cap at Dublin Airport to be scrapped, locals in North Dublin remain split.
As the aviation industry continues to call for passenger cap at Dublin Airport to be scrapped, locals in North Dublin remain split on the issue.
He said other EU states are laughing at Ireland over the cap – with Ryanair sending aircraft Copenhagen, Morocco and elsewhere instead Dublin.He also blamed ‘a couple of Nimbys in north county Dublin’ for the thousands of noise complaints about Dublin Airport since the new runway opened in August 2022.When Henry spoke to locals in the Swords suburb of Ridgewood, he found mixed opinions about the noise.“The aircraft now are so much quieter than when we moved in,” she said.
She said the plane noise is, ‘no worse than hearing the bus roaring up the back road’ – with her husband noting that it has become “white noise” to many residents. “They just go overhead all the time and keep me awake and well, they start about 6:30am in the morning and they go on until about 10:30pm at night.”Another resident said there are other noises to deal with once the planes stop flying.
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