I always love the music in the background of these reels. They should bring that back in :-)

True

It’s very nearly my least favourite, bad memories of 4 hour turn around waiting for onwards flights as a child before knock was built and now the endless walks because its far far too overextended and spread out.

I live in airports and find Dublin Duty free pretty cheap except for fags! As for it elbowing too big with long walks? Ever been to Heathrow, Kennedy, Charles De Gaul, Madrid, Frankfurt, Manchester etc etc! For a capital airport Dublinnis relatively compact!

Well heathrow is the one that I hate more. I’d say Manchester is much easier to get around provided you go to the right terminal, no walks for a mile to your departure gate a la pier d, the two terminals at manchester are a fair distance apart tho agreed! I find, however that there is much more satisfaction from flying out of a smaller airport like east midlands for example.

It is big for Ireland, 4.5 million people, 56,000 people use it a day, Dublin does carry more people than manchester. Joesph it is alot bigger today, most of those problems are long gone. You can buy most vodka cheaper in Tesco in Dublin than the airport. I live in London and use Heathrow every other week, i hate the airport. It needs demolishing most of it. Kennedy is a horrible airport also, one of the worst in the world.

If it was a Ryanair destination it would be in Leitrim..

Ah yes, the wonder of turning any positive news story, even one over 70 years old, into a rant against the banks, or on other threads against politicians.

The irony is that you wonderfully display an example of just what you complain against, inward focussing upon the crisis, and disregarding and destroying any and all good news, charity work or nostalgic news item

It probably only cost thrupence.

I thought it was sold for a mackrel and a quart of milk?

Please, no doubt people read these stories to try and get some glimmer of positivity. If this were an article about fiscal stability or banking bonuses then such comments would be appropriate, but it is not, it is about an airport building from over 70 years ago, hence comments about bankers are just a bit off topic, don’t you think.

As a note to Journal.ie staff, please appreciate that these constant off topic rants will eventually undermine the readership as a number of people have commented about how annoying it is

This maybe true.

But maybe some people just can’t wait for the ”appropriate story” to come along, so that they can vent their anger?

Remember our country has a history of media turning a blind eye.
Now with our mainstream media being solely controlled by 2-3 vested interests people must speak out.

When was the right time to speak out the abuses in the Catholic Church??

Omg…. Are we really turning a story about a news report of Dublin airport being built in1939 into the economic crisis and how bad our media is?

Also, political stories are on here ever day which would be a better platform for such topics.

Speak for yourself Harry. There’s already plenty of articles on the economy. I really enjoy these historical stories.

Sorry for rocking the boat guys.

Maybe we should have stopped our government from poisoning our drinking water with fluoride, like Iceland and Denmark were brave enough to do.