Will plan to rename Dublin Airport after Seán Lemass fly?
Ireland has been slow to name its airports after people. Streets and housing estates, yes, but as Ronan McGreevy points out, the State is more inclined to honour those who died for Ireland rather than those who lived for it.
A Bill to rename Dublin Airport after former taoiseach Seán Lemass has been brought forward in the Dáil.
It is not the first time the suggestion has been made; four years ago Taoiseach Micheál Martin proposed it, but talk of it fizzled out.
For McGreevy, an Irish Times journalist and historian whose next book is on Lemass, the former taoiseach and leader of Fianna Fáil…
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