
So, I'd taken Best Beloved on a surprise trip to Killarney in Eire for a few days. We'd done the Ring of Kerry and been to the Dingle Peninsula and generally chilled for a few days. Yesterday was the return home. We packed up the hire car and headed back to Cork Airport arriving in plenty of time. When we checked in the bags at the Aer Lingus counter, the clerk said that there had been a problem with the Edinburgh flight but was reasonably hopeful that there would be no problem with our flight to Birmingham. Wrong. We'd gone through security and were waiting at the gate when a call came for all passengers on our flight to go to the gate for an announcement. It seems that whilst the 737 and A320 jets could land at Cork, there was insufficient visibility for the ATR-72 turboprop we were flying in (pictured) to land and our incoming plane had been diverted to Kerry International Airport. Which was just outside to Killarney. So, we collect our bags and head onto a coach taking us basically back the way we had just come! A mad rush through Kerry Airport (which must qualify as the smallest airport I have ever flown through!) and on to the flight home getting back about 3 hours later than we expected. "I've been to all the airports in Ireland today!" muttered Siobhan, one of the stewardesses, as we left the plane...