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HOLIDAYMAKERS HAVE BEEN advised to check their airline’s website before travelling to airports this morning to ensure their flights have not been impacted by the air traffic controllers’ strike in France and Belgium.
Aer Lingus has said it plans to operate a full schedule of flights but that delays are expected today.
The company said the most likely routes to be affected are to and from Benelux, the Iberian Peninsula and the south of France. However, passengers to other destinations could also see delays, it said.
In its statement this morning, Ryanair noted that the strikes are “continuing to cause severe disruptions for our customers”.
Delays of up to five hours are being experienced for those flying into and out of France.
“We expect that these delays will continue to build through the morning as the backlog of delayed flights rises,” the airline continued, adding that it had cancelled about 15% of flights (240) as a result. About 24 of these were due to fly in or out of Ireland.
“We expect these disruptions to flights to/from France, Belgium and Spain will worsen this morning as all airlines schedules are heavily disrupted by this unnecessary and regrettable French ATC strike.”
Customers affected will be offered a choice of rebooking on a later flight or a full refund.
This is the second day in a row that Irish passengers will be affected by the French and Belgian ATC strike with Ryanair estimating about 4,000 people were impacted yesterday.
Hopefully, some day, the remains of Ireland’s “Missing Women” might be stumbled upon too. Their poor families REALLY deserve closure also.
I think that there’s something not quite right about the investigations in to the murder of those women. Time to invite in the FBI. Too many people know each other in this country
Truthy, the FBI don’t have jurisdiction in Ireland. Your not very Truthy are you!
Thus INVITE
The FBI have actually consulted on the cases of some of the missing women.
A heart broken family will get their son back and will be able to give him a proper burial……
At the very least it might be closure for some family… Crazy that it was just down to chance!
I don’t think that it was just down to chance. A new search of Oristown bog has been under way for the last few weeks.
Some clarity here. This Garda investigation team were not looking for a stolen car. They are part of a Garda team tasked with finding the IRA disappeared. Recent intelligence information provided to them led to the bog site in Meath. The body was found close to the car. Someone owns this land or has authority over it. Quite why the shell of a burnt out car supposedly sat here for 11 years without someone reporting it, identifying the vechicle and removing it, I have no idea. Had that happened, it might have led to closure for one family a lot sooner.
Its not that unusual for people to abandon banjaxed cars in bogs. A lot of the bogs around that area are owned by the Headfort estate and so there may not be anyone monitoring it that closely.
Drive around the Dublin Mountains, plenty of burnt out cars just rotting away for years and years in fields and bogs..
The car was stolen not banjaxed
Rildo…yeah, the point is that you don’t look at a shell of a car in a bog and say to yourself “That must be a stolen car, I better call the gardai”. RIP and condolences to the family.
Well it’s that type of bumpkin “sure it’s only an oul car” shit that slows investigation s down
Mick and all your green thumbers there, ye should get out of the city and actually visit a bog, you would learn loads , including how easily a car could rest there for many decades .
Whatever you say, Officer Rildo!
Please hold the jokes, Gerry was a much loved father, son, brother, uncle and friend , his family have been through a hell that no one should ever go through. Rest in Peace Gerry
You shower of C,,,s show some respect.
Must be the first bog body to be found in a car
RIP Gerry. Glad your family have closure. Your poor mam died of a broken heart but your united with her now
It took 11 years to find a stolen car? Ffs
Cutbacks.
Lol
Yeh the cops should do a nationwide excavation of every bog in the land each time a car is reported stolen.
Their full of soil
It is quite sick that some posters regard this find as funny. Such finds will always evoke memories of other bodies scattered throughout this island, memories of fellow human beings murdered by ‘republican’ and ‘loyalist’ gangs.
Fellow human beings.. like eh Palestinians?
For what its worth you can tell if a decomposed body or skeleton is male or female by looking at the Jaw. If there’s an indent in the bit of the Jawbone that meets the skull that means it belongs to a female skeleton, if it’s not indented its a male skeleton.
Someone’s been killed what’s with the jokes FFS show some respect
Respect please people. One family has closure tonight, but there are so many more still waiting. This is not the body that they had hoped to find, but lets hope that someone will give them that one bit of information that will give the meGraw family closure. Thoughts with both families tonight.
Likely car was burnt and the car and body were buried in bog . Means the people,who did it had access to an excavator which may have been at site already legitimately. If it had been on the surface it would have been noticed a long time ago as ireland is a small place .
Sure it helped unite ireland anyway.
The car is missing since 2003. He is missing since 2011. I doubt it.
RTE news are reporting this as the remains of Gerard Daly, missing since 2011.
Gardai treating the death as suspicious.
Looking for a person wearing a black balaclava, navy track suit bottoms, black hoodie and white runners
Gardai
Was he ‘known to the Gardai’ I wonder?
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