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Airports getting busier but Dublin accounts for 96% of growth
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New figures published by the Oireachtas Library & Research Service have revealed that Kerry Airport has seen a 17% rise in passenger numbers since 2012.
335,480 people used the airport in 2017, an increase of roughly 10,000 on the previous 12 months. Despite the steady growth over the past five years, last year’s numbers are still 90,000 short of Kerry Airport’s busiest ever year; 430,000 travellers passed through Farranfore in 2008.
In total, 34.4 million passengers used Ireland’s five main airports. Unsurprisingly, Dublin handled the vast majority (85.5%) while passengers to and from Cork and Shannon accounted for 6.7 and 4.6% respectively. Knock ranked fourth (2.2%) while Kerry was the quietest (1%).
4 in 5 passengers to and from Kerry Airport travelled Ryanair with the remainder made up of Aer Lingus Regional travellers. Luton (111,713) and Stansted (77,693) were the main destinations and sources of arrivals with Frankfurt, Dublin and Alicante completing the top five.
Nationally there was an increase of 45.5% in passenger traffic since 2012 although, worryingly, 96.2% of this growth was at Dublin Airport.
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Jessie Buckley to perform live on RTE this Friday 22nd September

This Culture Night, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh will present an hour-long live music and arts programme from Dún Lúiche in the heart of the Donegal Gaeltacht at 7pm on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player.
Actress and singer Jessie Buckley has been added to the list of stellar musicians who will perform with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra on the night. Jessie will perform a special rendition of a Sinéad O’Connor song in tribute to the late artist.
Jessie commented: “I am very honoured to return to Culture Night 2023 to remember Sinéad O Connor with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Sinéad was such a huge influence on so many women in Ireland and across the world, her courage, her mind, her politics and her intense beauty and soul. She was a warrior to humanity. I remember hearing her for the first time and feeling her uncompromising need to connect and affect. Recognising what couldn’t be said and speaking it out loud. I am so grateful for all her fire and all her love. It is such a privilege to return to Ireland for RTÉ Culture Night in Donegal to sing a song of gratitude for Sinéad and her family and friends.”
Other artists performing with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra include The Murder Capital, R&B singer and 2FM Rising star Aby Coulibaly and Irish-based Ukrainian musician Olesya Zdorovetska.
Friday 22nd September, 7pm on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player
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N22 Killarney to Faranfore road further delayed
The revealing of the preferred route corridor for the construction of the new Killarney to Farranfore road has been delayed – again. Four potential routes for the N22 Farranfore-Killarney project […]

The revealing of the preferred route corridor for the construction of the new Killarney to Farranfore road has been delayed – again.
Four potential routes for the N22 Farranfore-Killarney project were identified and were put out to public consultation in May 2021. These have now been whittled down to just one.
It was previously promised that the preferred route would be published late last year.
This dragged on in to the Spring and there is still no sigh of the preferred route being revealed.
A recent Kerry County Council meeting a council official explained that there are further funding requirements to allow the council complete various reports and investigations required before the road can move to its next phase.
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