moaning north of the Border two years ago, when Dublin Airport was targeting travellers from the other side of the Border to drive down the M1 and fly from Dublin for cheaper. Southern airports were being “aggressive”, or so the talk went up north, in between sniffles.

The currency shoe is on the other foot now, and Belfast International Airport is gleefully kicking with it as hard as it can.

Belfast has launched the next phase of a marketing campaign to tempt southern flyers, and reckons it will get 600,000 this year. The airport’s blog says it is launching “hard-hitting advertisements directed at persuading passengers away from Dublin Airport” in the six counties just south of the Border – Louth, Cavan, Monaghan, Leitrim, Donegal and Sligo. It will also sendWestminster Palace - House of Parliament

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