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Editorial: Failure to remove passenger cap quickly becoming national embarrassment

As an island nation on the periphery of Europe, maintaining a limit on the number of flights below an arbitrary ceiling would be an deliberate act of self-harm

Ryanair and Aer Lingus passenger jets on the tarmac at Dublin Airport. Picture: Getty

Calls from the outspoken boss of Ryanair Michael O’Leary for the transport minister to resign are nothing new.

O’Leary has long sought to brand the department as the down town office of the Dublin Airport Authority which has a monopoly on operations at the airport.

Eamon Ryan is again in the cross-hairs of the airline over the decision of members of his Green Party to lodge objections to plans to increase the passenger cap at ...