An Irish MEP was left stranded by an
airline at Dublin airport yesterday even though he was booked on the flight and
had paid for his ticket well in advance. The Fine Gael MEP Sean Kelly had been
booked on a Lufthansa (German airline) flight from Dublin to Frankfurt yesterday.
But when he arrived at the check-in desk at Dublin airport yesterday morning he
was told the flight was full and that he couldn’t get on it. Now the Ireland
South MEP is vowing to get the practice of over-booking flights banned.

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An Irish MEP is vowing to get the EU to ban
airlines from over-booking passengers on the same flights after becoming a
victim of the practice himself.  Sean
Kelly had been booked on a Lufthansa flight from Dublin to Frankfurt in Germany yesterday.
But when he arrived at the check-in desk at Dublin airport yesterday morning he
was told the flight was full and that he couldn’t get on it. This happened even
though the Ireland South MEP says he had arrived almost 2 hours in advance and that
he’d booked and paid for his ticket months ago. 

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The Sinn Fein MEP Lynn Boylan is
demanding that the EU Commission investigates the high concentration of media
ownership in Ireland. An EU-funded report recently published by the Florence-based
Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom, found that Ireland was exposed to
a ‘high risk’ when it comes to concentration of media ownership. The report referred to the fact that the businessman
Denis O’Brien ‘enjoys a dominant position within the
print and the commercial radio sector’. However, the report also stated that this
dominance is countered by the dominant position of RTE, in both the television
and radio markets. But Lynn Boylan is warning that no one individual should
control so much of the media.   

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