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DUBLIN AIRPORT REACHES a milestone anniversary today: 75 years.
We’re used to seeing it in a shiny state, but the facility had humble beginnings – grass runway included.
Work at Dublin Airport, which was originally known as Collinstown Airport, began in 1937 after the site was selected as the location for the capital’s new civilian airport. Collinstown had been a base for the British Royal Air Force before the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922, but the old military airfield had fallen into disrepair by the late 1930s.
The airport opened for business on Friday, 19 January, 1940 – with a single flight to Liverpool’s Speke Airport. Shortly after 9am, an Aer Lingus Lockheed 14 aircraft took off from the grass runway close to the original passenger terminal, which was still being built at that time.
Building at the airport was stalled during World War 2. Its only service was to Liverpool or occasionally to Manchester’s Barton Aerodrome. Aer Lingus had been operating from Baldonnel from 1936 and had moved its operations to the new Dublin Airport in January 1940.
Dublin Airport’s first scheduled service to London commenced in November 1945, with a two and a half hour direct flight to Croydon Airport and air mail services were added in 1946. Connections to other British cities and continental European destinations were added and in April 1958, Dublin Airport got its first scheduled transatlantic service to New York.
All images courtesy of Dublin Airport Authority
Dublin Airport Timeline:
Vincent Harrison, Dublin Airport’s Managing Director, said that the facility has welcomed 435 million passengers since it opened “boosting Irish trade, tourism and investment and bringing together generations of families and friends”.
14 new services are set to start running this year.
To mark the anniversary, music from the 1940s and 50s will be played in both terminals today. An exhibition charting the airport’s 75 years has also been installed in Terminal 1 and will be open to the public throughout the year.
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Could we not have let natural selection do its thing here…
Yeh, he’s just a selfish tool though.
‘I’m just gonna go and follow my dreams! Make a sail from a plastic bag and just friggin DO IT!
CARPE DIEM!
what a clown…
my best friend’s aunt makes $71/hr on the internet. She has been out of work for nine months but last month her pay was $17386 just working on the internet for a few hours. Here’s the site to read more… http://www.Can99.com
Dirt merchant…
Florence your a plonker
Obviously didn’t know about Stena’s rail/sail deals.
He is the RYANAIR version of ferries
Should have told him he was going the wrong way, everyone else is trying to get out!
Ah shut the f@)k up moaning its sunny have a good time and stop moaning everyone is sick of hearing it
Stop moaning about people moaning. Oh sh*t now I’m moaning about you moaning about people moaning,!
Ah Paul, not all of us are sick of it! I quite enjoy seeing the moaners moaning and the counter moaners counter moaning back at them!
Good moaning to be had on the Journal. Can’t beat a good oul’ moan!
You couldn’t make it up,one paddle and a plastic sheet for a sail.wahahaha
That’s what I said to my hubby lol
Haha,
Lidl’s fault selling shit like that to nutters
Will he be arrested for stupidity?
If he was out there for much longer he might have been up for a Darwin Award.
What a Cock
Silly bhoy!
Buoy, my bad
Your bad what? Bad English? Bad spelling? Or bad typing?
^You’re
My spelling and typing! Thanks for the confidence boost!
^Nice
Vinny, “Your” in this case. In answer to “my bad”. Acknowledging ownership of tthe mistake! :)
Vinny gets more likes for confusing your and you’re. Where are all the grammar nazis;)
Their (!) having a siesta or have sunstroke. I was only pointing out that Vinny’s correction is wrong.
My bad = my mistake
Therefore
your bad? = your mistake?
*they’re ;) I was agreeing you up until that:P
It was meant to be irony, Roz, hence the (!). It obviously backfired. Anyway the rest of the comment stands.
Thank you Mary (-:
Welcome, I’m sure, Phil. :)
What a farking muppet……………………
He was up sheet creek with two paddles…
Moron! … Seriously, what possesses some people?!
What a clown !
4.6 million people attempt to sail from Ireland to Dorset in an inflatable dinghy .
What a tool, he would be unlikely to make it to Cherbourg, France, he wanted go couple times farther…to Ireland. Did he even check google maps lol some nutter.
Thats the cost of travel for ya
Where is health and safety and when he is in trouble us mugs the tax payers will pay to fish him out.
Didn’t happen here so no we won’t have to pay. If you would read the full story you would see that.
Actually the lifeboat would have responded to the call and their an independent charity, no govt funding
It was the Coastguard, and that’s a government service.
The dive vessel brought him ashore. Coastguard issued the statement, as it’s their jurisdiction, and the land-based emergency services took over from there. No cost to the Irish taxpayer.
On a related topic, I always find it amazing that RNLI are entirely charity funded when you consider some of the organisations that get public funding.
However, I understand that RNLI prefer it this way as it ensures no government interference or”service improvements”, I.e. more execs and fewer lifeboats. Brilliant group of people; support them if you are able.
The bleedin’ mad thing!
Feckin eejit!!
AA Route Planner says it can be done in 8 hours 48 minutes but it doesn’t suggest you take the HMS Idiot with captain moron and plastic sail and no wind. Love this story!
There’s no cure for stupidity unfortunately
Irelands sw has alot to answer for
Maybe he was a sea scout looking to pitch his tent?!
I remember reading an article in the Wexford People about three lads doing this in the seventies. They took a two man canoe (took turns sitting on the bow) a radio and a packet of biscuits and made it across to Wales.
Can I have his dinghy ?
Do ye reckon he had his “bus” fair home or was planning to do the return leg in his dingy
This takes “get the boat” to a new level!
Dope
Laughed out of the country
Lad
Apparently there was a guy who reached the Eastlink Bridge with a smaller dingy which had a duck shape
https://twitter.com/barratemple/status/357223754692177923/photo/1
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