A record 367, 000 passengers passed through Ireland West Airport during the period January to June of this year (2023) making it the busiest six-month period in the airport's 38-year history.

The passenger numbers represented a 24% increase on the same period last year and 1% higher than the previous busiest six-month period, pre-pandemic in 2019.

It comes as the airport welcomed a new service to London Heathrow with Aer Lingus, whilst Ryanair added extra capacity on services to Edinburgh, Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham for the summer period.

More recently, Ryanair launched a new weekly service to Lanzarote and a new weekly service to Tenerife from this winter.

Donal Healy is the Head of Marketing at IWAK.

He has been giving more details about the volume of passengers through the airport to Midwest Radio's Alannah Nolan....