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Aakanksha Surve

Dublin Airport sees one person file over 3,100 noise complaints in first half of year

Over 3,100 complaints were lodged by a single individual about the noise pollution from Dublin Airport.

The Ongar resident made 3,147 complaints about noise from airplanes in the first half of the year, which is over 80% of all complaints recorded over the period.

Two other people, one from The Ward and another from Ongar, filed more than 100 complaints between January and June.

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DAA received a total of 3,817 noise complaints from over 100 people in this period compared to the 396 complaints in the same timeframe last year.

The news follows Fingal County Council's recent appointment as the competent authority for independently assessing noise controls and restrictions at Dublin Airport.

The airport authority claimed that the figures were skewed by the same individuals filing a significant number of complaints, the Irish Times reports.

The majority of the objections raised were about noise from an aircraft taking off from the main 10/28 runway during the day.

Most of the complaints were made by people living in Dublin’s northside or those living close to flight paths like The Ward, Portmarnock and St Margaret’s.

But there have also been objections from those living in Tallaght and Sallynoggin in the southside, Celbridge and Maynooth in Co Kildare, and Newcastle in Co Wicklow.

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A spokeswoman for the DAA said that more than 99% of the commercial flights stuck to a dedicated flight path on take-off and approach at Dublin Airport.

She added that the DAA had contacted the Irish Aviation Authority to check if anything had changed in the flight paths following the increase in complaints.

She said: “We are both puzzled as to what has changed over Ongar since the first complaint came in July 2018, as the current flight procedures/path have remained the same for at least the past 15 years.

“Aircraft are typically between 5,000 and 10,000 feet when they are given direction by the IAA to turn south over Ongar.”

The DAA also said that the number of flight paths increased over the period.

A new €320 million runway is being built at the airport which will be in operation in 2022.

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