>The figures show one individual living close to a main flight path in St Margaret’s, Co Dublin submitted 7,535 complaints in August 2024 – a daily average of 243 complaints
By god. That’s a mental illness at that stage
Sounds like it’s not working.
One person has a hell of a lot of time on their hands.
Living near an airport complaints about noise. Kinda person who complains about getting wet when going swimming
I’d love to hear people’s opinions on this. One individual accounting for a significant number of complaints and a handful of individuals making up the majority of total complaints the airport gets annually with regards to noise levels. I saw an aerial photo recently of the airport in the late 1940s and it’s surrounded by fields, absolutely no one within miles and miles of it. None of these people bought or built their homes and suddenly an international airport was spawned in their back yard. I appreciate aircraft and engines have changed significantly but the newer engines are getting quieter, and with the dual runway system in place, people in the flight path of the airport don’t have aircraft flying overhead as often because they alternate the use of both runways and the direction of operations. It might not be exclusively an “Irish thing” but there is a theme in Ireland with NIMBYs that halts progress (or at the very least slows it to a crawl) in so far as we are world class at pandering to it.
Jesus at that stage does it not become harassment?
They obviously have a noise meter in place, which is programmed up to a GSM unit of some kind, and an email is sent every time is recording an above limit sound.
I don’t really see the issue if the airport aren’t keeping to their required noise levels they should be held to account.
This person is louder than the airport itself
Going to put this on LinkedIn and use it as a case study on tenacity and how it can be applied to B2B SaaS sales.
They must be using a template
spiders georg
How to get the airport to never listen to your complaints, ring them 200 odd times a day.
I live in the flight path of another major airport, a plane is currently going over head. I’m deaf to the sound unless some helicopter or massive giant plane is going. I know it’s easy to say move house but christ…200 times a day is ridiculous.
That’s crazy, a call every 6 mins, 24hrs a day to give out about planes, I don’t even think Ryanairs customer support has that volume of calls
These NIMBY folks are getting wilder.
Airport has been there since 1936, every person under the age of 90 in Swords knew exactly what to expect when they bought there.
Some people have absolutely no lives and will spend them dying on a hill that no sane person cares about.
If they really had a problem, they would move, but these moans still want to go on holiday from Dublin as it’s so conveniently located. Be great if you could ban them and make them drive to Knock to go on holidays, then we will see if they stop complaining hahahaha
I’d worry more about the mental health of the people submitting that many complaints than I would about the noise.
Its laughable that neanderthals like these are being given airtime. They live next to the largest airport on the island, of course there’s going to be noise from flights.
I mean firstly there is no way in hell this is done manually.
It’s definitely done by someone that wrote a program to send a complaint every time the decibel level goes above what the airport allows for.
You wouldn’t even need to buy any new equipment as the airport has their own decibel meters and you can get data from them live.
It is a bit hard to feel sorry for your man. Looking up where he is the village is literally between the two runways, don’t really know what you would expect living there.
>DAA’s figures show the top five individual complainants each month accounted for 46,197 complaints last year – representing 65 per cent of the total number of complaints
This is a sign of an unhealthy obsession. I live near the flight path and I hardly notice the planes.
That’s a complaint on average, every 4-6 minutes, if we include time spent asleep or not. So yeah, doubtful that it’s a real human…
This the lad with the sponsored Twitter posts about it?
Same lad as last year?
Jaysus. This reminded me of a similar post I had years ago, you’d have to presume it’s the same person, although they’ve ramped it up a bit since! From 17 complaints a day to over 240!
One per plane, checks out to me. When I moved in front of Rearden’s bar in Cork I however knew that would be both a convenient and inconvenient decision.
Clearly He’s written software to do that.
Would they not have set up a beermoney thing instead of doing that, ffs. If it’s automated you can be generating pennies, if it’s not you can be doing remote tasks or something.
Then at least you’d get a fucking voucher after your months of work… instead of the fruitless attempt at moving the airport 😂
There is a community setup to report them. I have a relative living there. My kids won’t even come with me when I visit them anymore because the noise from the planes actually hurts their ears and they can’t play outside. I never would have thought it before but the noise of a plane taking off there really is something to behold. And when they start they don’t stop for hours on end. Ive even taken to checking the wind direction when I call out so I know the planes will be taking off in the other direction.
I asked them why don’t they move and they said nobody would buy their house for enough to allow them to get a mortgage elsewhere.
I’m in a similar situation. Just bought a bar in Lanzarote. I have a music licence to play music until 3.30. I shut the doors, have light music and karaoke. The guy across the road rings the policia every other day. They arrived, I show them my license and they leave. He bought an apartment over looking 3 bars that have been here 20 years.
The more you complain, the more compensation you get .
Just to add an alternative view to most of the current comments. The average person has to file and abide by a planning application for some very trivial changes to their home and neighbours can block them if they feel like it. The DAA in their planning applications for the likes of the northern runway provided very detailed flight plans and noise charts so people could express their views, move home or whatever. The DAA are not having planes follow those flight plans and even when they do they’re exceeding the noise levels significantly.
So there’s a planning process that everybody else in the country needs to be subject to, why should the DAA be exempt from that?
I agree that if you bought a house right beside the airport or on an existing route in a growing country then I’m afraid it’s mostly tough luck, but what if you looked at the planning application and bought where planes were not to be flying over?
Choose to buy near airport, complain that the airport is noisy…
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>The figures show one individual living close to a main flight path in St Margaret’s, Co Dublin submitted 7,535 complaints in August 2024 – a daily average of 243 complaints
By god. That’s a mental illness at that stage
Sounds like it’s not working.
One person has a hell of a lot of time on their hands.
Living near an airport complaints about noise. Kinda person who complains about getting wet when going swimming
I’d love to hear people’s opinions on this. One individual accounting for a significant number of complaints and a handful of individuals making up the majority of total complaints the airport gets annually with regards to noise levels. I saw an aerial photo recently of the airport in the late 1940s and it’s surrounded by fields, absolutely no one within miles and miles of it. None of these people bought or built their homes and suddenly an international airport was spawned in their back yard. I appreciate aircraft and engines have changed significantly but the newer engines are getting quieter, and with the dual runway system in place, people in the flight path of the airport don’t have aircraft flying overhead as often because they alternate the use of both runways and the direction of operations. It might not be exclusively an “Irish thing” but there is a theme in Ireland with NIMBYs that halts progress (or at the very least slows it to a crawl) in so far as we are world class at pandering to it.
Jesus at that stage does it not become harassment?
They obviously have a noise meter in place, which is programmed up to a GSM unit of some kind, and an email is sent every time is recording an above limit sound.
I don’t really see the issue if the airport aren’t keeping to their required noise levels they should be held to account.
This person is louder than the airport itself
Going to put this on LinkedIn and use it as a case study on tenacity and how it can be applied to B2B SaaS sales.
They must be using a template
spiders georg
How to get the airport to never listen to your complaints, ring them 200 odd times a day.
I live in the flight path of another major airport, a plane is currently going over head. I’m deaf to the sound unless some helicopter or massive giant plane is going. I know it’s easy to say move house but christ…200 times a day is ridiculous.
That’s crazy, a call every 6 mins, 24hrs a day to give out about planes, I don’t even think Ryanairs customer support has that volume of calls
These NIMBY folks are getting wilder.
Airport has been there since 1936, every person under the age of 90 in Swords knew exactly what to expect when they bought there.
Some people have absolutely no lives and will spend them dying on a hill that no sane person cares about.
If they really had a problem, they would move, but these moans still want to go on holiday from Dublin as it’s so conveniently located. Be great if you could ban them and make them drive to Knock to go on holidays, then we will see if they stop complaining hahahaha
I’d worry more about the mental health of the people submitting that many complaints than I would about the noise.
Its laughable that neanderthals like these are being given airtime. They live next to the largest airport on the island, of course there’s going to be noise from flights.
I mean firstly there is no way in hell this is done manually.
It’s definitely done by someone that wrote a program to send a complaint every time the decibel level goes above what the airport allows for.
You wouldn’t even need to buy any new equipment as the airport has their own decibel meters and you can get data from them live.
It is a bit hard to feel sorry for your man. Looking up where he is the village is literally between the two runways, don’t really know what you would expect living there.
>DAA’s figures show the top five individual complainants each month accounted for 46,197 complaints last year – representing 65 per cent of the total number of complaints
This is a sign of an unhealthy obsession. I live near the flight path and I hardly notice the planes.
That’s a complaint on average, every 4-6 minutes, if we include time spent asleep or not. So yeah, doubtful that it’s a real human…
This the lad with the sponsored Twitter posts about it?
Same lad as last year?
Jaysus. This reminded me of a similar post I had years ago, you’d have to presume it’s the same person, although they’ve ramped it up a bit since! From 17 complaints a day to over 240!
https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/s/lLQCiyyioZ
One per plane, checks out to me. When I moved in front of Rearden’s bar in Cork I however knew that would be both a convenient and inconvenient decision.
Clearly He’s written software to do that.
Would they not have set up a beermoney thing instead of doing that, ffs. If it’s automated you can be generating pennies, if it’s not you can be doing remote tasks or something.
Then at least you’d get a fucking voucher after your months of work… instead of the fruitless attempt at moving the airport 😂
There is a community setup to report them. I have a relative living there. My kids won’t even come with me when I visit them anymore because the noise from the planes actually hurts their ears and they can’t play outside. I never would have thought it before but the noise of a plane taking off there really is something to behold. And when they start they don’t stop for hours on end. Ive even taken to checking the wind direction when I call out so I know the planes will be taking off in the other direction.
I asked them why don’t they move and they said nobody would buy their house for enough to allow them to get a mortgage elsewhere.
I’m in a similar situation. Just bought a bar in Lanzarote. I have a music licence to play music until 3.30. I shut the doors, have light music and karaoke. The guy across the road rings the policia every other day. They arrived, I show them my license and they leave. He bought an apartment over looking 3 bars that have been here 20 years.
The more you complain, the more compensation you get .
Just to add an alternative view to most of the current comments. The average person has to file and abide by a planning application for some very trivial changes to their home and neighbours can block them if they feel like it. The DAA in their planning applications for the likes of the northern runway provided very detailed flight plans and noise charts so people could express their views, move home or whatever. The DAA are not having planes follow those flight plans and even when they do they’re exceeding the noise levels significantly.
So there’s a planning process that everybody else in the country needs to be subject to, why should the DAA be exempt from that?
I agree that if you bought a house right beside the airport or on an existing route in a growing country then I’m afraid it’s mostly tough luck, but what if you looked at the planning application and bought where planes were not to be flying over?
Choose to buy near airport, complain that the airport is noisy…
Just move and shut the fuck up already
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