Updated / Wednesday, 10 Mar 2021
18:27
Ryanair lodged an objection against the plans with its consultants, BMA Planning
Plans by airport operator daa to install a new paid drop-off and pick-up zone at Dublin Airport have suffered a major setback.
It follows Fingal County Council refusing planning permission to daa to install the infrastructure and change the internal roadwork at the airport to allow the scheme proceed.
daa is proposing that the new paid drop-off and pick-up zones would operate in front of terminals one and two in a bid to reduce car journeys to and from the facility and stop private drivers picking up passengers outside the terminals.
Locked-down Britons are today questioning if the Covid crackdown has gone too far after a jogger was stopped by a marshal for breathing heavily .
Bizarre footage shows a perplexed jogger being collared by a Covid marshal while on a riverside run in west London.
Asked why he is being stopped, the jogger is told by the high-vis wearing security guard: Because you are breathing heavily .
Baffled Gary Purnell, who filmed the incident, described it as the craziest thing in the world .
But council chiefs have today defended the decision. Hammersmith and Fulham Council leader Stephen Cowan said he would offer no apology for discouraging joggers from using the riverside walk at peak-times.