Comment: Heathrow's inability to expand has been a windfall for Dublin

Irish politicians have failed to deliver a decent public transport system here

Ireland's gain? Pic: Getty

The British government’s announcement that it had sanctioned a third runway at Heathrow was greeted in the UK with support and derision in equal measure.

The saga threatens to be the biggest example of transport planning gone mad since Boston’s infamous “Big Dig” - and it is highly unlikely that the most recent announcement will take the heat out of a story that threatens to tie London’s aviation sector in knots for decades ...