Home at last!

A marathon journey home finally came to an end for 47 Mervue teenagers this afternoon, almost 24 hours after they were refused permission to board a Ryanair flight from London.The soccer players, members of Mervue United FC, had endured a five hour delay at a Danish airport after representing Galway (and Ireland) at the World Youth Games in Denmark.When they finally made it to London Stansted yesterday afternoon, they were told that they were too late to board their two connecting flights to Dublin — even though 20 of them were just three minutes late arriving at the check-in desk.Although the delayed flight was also operated by Ryanair, the Irish airline refused to carry the teams and instead offered to fly them home from East Midlands Airport — some 200kms away — this Thursday.This would have left the children and their coaches having…..