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News Release
10.08.10

Dublin Airport to be renamed 'The Jedward'

DUBLIN AIRPORT RENAMED “JEDWARD” BY POLL OF 10,000 RYANAIR PASSENGERS
 
Ryanair, Ireland’s favourite airline, today (10th Aug) renamed Dublin Airport Dublin Jedward Airport after a poll of over 10,000 passengers agreed that prices at Dublin airport rise faster than Jedward’s hair. Jedward piped Ivor Callely to top the poll after a late surge for Callely following recent reports that he, like T2, costs the taxpayers a fortune but delivers very little value.
 
Ryanair launched the online poll after the Govt announced it would consider renaming Dublin Airport in September, prior to the opening of its €1.2bn white elephant Terminal 2, and asked passengers to vote for the best alternative name for the airport, where passenger numbers in 2010 will be as little as 17m, down 30% from 23,5m in the past 2 years.
 
The results of the Ryanair poll were as follows:
 
·         31% - Dublin “Jedward” Airport – prices rise quicker than their hair.
·         21% - Dublin “Ivor Callely” Airport – expensive, but is it in Dublin or Cork?
·         20% - Dublin “The Zoo” Airport – home of expensive white elephants (T2)…
·         15% - Dublin “Bertie Ahern” Airport – costs taxpayers a fortune….
·         13% - Dublin “Ray Burke” Airport – “will we get a receipt – will we f**k”…
 
Ryanair’s Stephen McNamara said:
                         
“Ryanair passengers have spoken and after over 10,000 votes were cast, Dublin Airport should now be renamed Dublin Jedward Airport – because its prices rise faster than their hair. Ryanair launched the poll after the Govt decided that the most pressing issue at Dublin Airport was not that T2 will double capacity to 60m passengers p.a. while traffic collapses to less than 17m p.a., but rather that Dublin airport should be renamed.
 
Proving that Dublin Airport is an icon for overspending, votes for Ivor Callely surged into second place after it was alleged that he has also cost Irish taxpayers a fortune for very little value – just like the DAA who have wasted €1.2bn on T2 which the taxpaying travelling public will now have to pay back for many decades to come.
 
One lucky entrant will now be presented with the option of a weekend for two in a 4 star hotel in Venice worth over €1,000, in September, or a camping weekend in the empty T2 in Dublin in November.”

 
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