Editorial: High time to lift nonsensical limits on passenger numbers at Dublin Airport

Dublin Airport has some of Ireland’s most essential and expensive public infrastructure. Terminal 2, which opened in 2010, and the second runway, which began operating last year, cost a combined €1.25 billion. It was money well spent. They greatly expanded the capacity of the airport and made it our gateway to the world.

Yet Dublin Airport is unable to operate this infrastructure to its fullest extent because the planning authorities imposed a ceiling on the ...