Foynes

The port of Shannon Foynes has unveiled its €32m jetty expansion and logistics park as it aims to establish the estuary as a floating offshore wind hub.

THE Shannon Foynes Port Company last year incurred legal costs of €357,008 arising from a successful High Court action its CEO, Pat Keating, took against the port firm over unpaid bonuses.

Late one night, the County Tyrone cook got word that a flight that had previously departed Foynes for Botwood in Newfoundland was returning after several hours flying in bad weather conditions.

Plans to close the port and relocate all activity to the deepwater facility further downstream at Foynes have been abandoned.