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THE MIdlANDS Making sense: When Sleeves become What to see in the heart f Ireland Mountains and going to Kill on a Sunday is a good thing 113. THE EASTERN SIDE It’s not just about Dublin 67. TURN SOUTH Cork & Kerry: 117. DUblIN, THE CAPITAL It’s no all about dolphins and beaches Your no-nonsense guide to the City 4 SHANNON AIRPORT GUIDE Publishers Note: On behalf of Guerin Media Ltd we would like to extend our thanks to a few different parties involved in this project. To Shannon Airport, a thank you for having the vision and insight to get involved with our idea and for contributing to help make it a great success. To Bord Failte, Shannon Heritage and Gerry Lynch in My Destination County Clare, for their expertise, their images and their assistance; without which this publication could never have been nearly as eye-catching and informative. To our advertisers and contributors: without your generosity and spirit this magazine would quite simply not exist; I hope your footfall surges. To our own sales, production and design teams: congratulations all on yet another job well done and a product we can all be proud of. And finally to our readers: thank you for taking the time to pick up a copy of Turas. I hope it helps in some way to may your Ireland adventure a lasting memory. Best wishes and safe trip, The Guerin Media Team 5 Glenaran_Shannon_Advert.pdf 1 12/5/13 2:26 PM C M Y CM MY CY CMY K Glenaran_Shannon_Advert.pdf 1 12/5/13 2:26 PM SHANNON AIRPORT GUIDE 2012 of a Government Steering Group to oversee the restructuring of the State Airports and Shannon 2013 Development. AN HISTORIC YEAR: Limerick based and Clare born aviation expert and AN INDEPENDENT lawyer Rose Hynes was appointed as Chairman of an Aviation Business Development Task Force to SHANNON AIRPORT: report into the Steering Group on proposals for the restructuring. By the time it did, Rose, since confirmed as Chairman of the new Shannon Airport Authority Board, together with the airport executive, had drawn together a plan and vision for Shannon which they are confident is achievable. And by all accounts, their confidence is well placed as not only were they busy devising the plan, they were equally active out in the field selling it, and successfully so. The response was such that Airport Director Mary Considine has no doubt but the airport is about to take-off one more time. C “The great thing about the work of the Task Force is that M it was not just about putting a plan together. We have Y been out there talking to airlines and potential investors Shannon Airport has proudly declared CM in aviation related businesses and the response has been MY its very own independence and set out really positive.” CY on what it anticipates will be a new era “The immediate focus will be on sustainable traffic CMY of sustained success for Ireland’s most growth. We have already made inroads in that regard K historic airport. over recent months. We have secured new services to Chicago and Philadelphia that will give us a 22% uplift in passengers on transatlantic services alone during The word ‘Shannon’ has long since been the busy summer season.” “We also have a new route a by-word for innovation the world over to Faro and a doubling of our capacity to Bodrum in and is now about to embark on another Tu r k e y.” coming, as it were, after being given its “We see these significant wins over recent months as own wings by Government at midnight a start only and will be working hard to make other on December 31st 2012. equally significant gains over the coming months. Our goal is to increase passenger numbers to 2.5million The theme of ‘Just Think How Far We Can Go’ within five years. That’s over one million less than what had been chosen as the motif for the airport’s we achieved at peak in 2008 so we are confident it is a independence. It is evident across the terminal realistic target.” building today; draped in a huge banner outside facing on to the car park and emblazoned on the floors “We don’t expect it to be easy, however, but are prepared inside. for the hard-work and really excited by the task at hand. We are determined that when we look back in 20 years There is a real sense that this airport, which has we will see the moment Shannon achieved independence traditionally dared like no other to think big, sees as historic, a turning point for the airport as it were.” no boundaries and is on the move up again.