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‘No basis’ for noise worry: Michael O’Leary dismisses local concerns over lifting of airport passenger cap

Ryanair chief executive said he wasn’t personally abusive to Eamon Ryan, and that without raising the cap, Ireland’s tourism industry would suffer

Michael O’Leary: in a video posted to Ryanair’s social media, the Ryanair chief takes aim at transport minister Eamon Ryan and says tourism will stagnate unless the passenger cap at Dublin Airport is lifted

Michael O’Leary has once again laid out his stall on the Dublin Airport passenger cap debate, saying that Ireland “will lose out” if it is not raised and that concerns from local residents about a potential increase in noise levels are unfounded.

Doubling down on his criticisms of Eamon Ryan, the minister for transport, the Ryanair chief executive said that the question of raising the cap to 40 million should not be a planning issue, ...