LACK OF CUSTOMS INSPECTIONS AT GALWAY AIRPORT

Date Published: 14-Feb-2008

A lack of customs inspections at regional airports including Galway airport has been criticised.According to figures published in today’s Irish Independent customs officials only visited Galway airport 12 times last year.They visited the airport only 10 times in 2006 compared to 43 inspections in 2005.Labour TD Joan Burton is claiming drug traffickers are targeting regional airports because of the lack of securitySeven aerodromes across the country received NO visits from customs officials in the past three years including three on the Aran Islands.