In this case it is the dispute between the Dublin Airport Authority, the state-owned commercial entity charged with managing and developing Ireland’s principal airports, and its currently suspended chief executive Kenny Jacobs. He has now filed an affidavit providing his view of the claims and motivations of the DAA. In this week’s authoritative 2025 On-Time Performance Review by Cirium, a respected aviation data analytics company, not one Irish airport was listed in the top tier of world performers. Top-ranked global airports included Istanbul, Panama, Santiago and, among the “small airports” category, Guayaquil Jose Joaquin de Olmedo International Airport in Ecuador with 91.5% on-time departures. But it is important that debate moves forward on what a unified Ireland might look like.

Source: Irish Examiner January 17, 2026 23:30 UTC