{"id":279170,"date":"2026-01-11T10:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T10:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/279170\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T10:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T10:58:09","slug":"daa-said-suspension-of-chief-executive-kenny-jacobs-was-justified-to-stop-witness-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/279170\/","title":{"rendered":"DAA said suspension of chief executive Kenny Jacobs was justified to stop \u2018witness interference\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DAA chief executive Kenny Jacobs. Photo: Gerry Mooney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a18657c1-4b1d-41c9-9e12-dc80b6f64ac4.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">DAA chief executive Kenny Jacobs. Photo: Gerry Mooney<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The DAA justified its suspension of chief executive Kenny Jacobs by claiming there was a risk he would interfere with witnesses during a new investigation into his conduct, legal filings reveal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Mr Jacobs (52) was suspended on \u00adDecember 15 after being presented with a list of 20 complaints by the board of DAA plc, which owns and operates Dublin and Cork airports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAA chief executive Kenny Jacobs. Photo: Gerry Mooney The DAA justified its suspension of chief executive Kenny Jacobs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,38997,18,19,17,8661],"class_list":{"0":"post-279170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-daa","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-shane-phelan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115876115548624772","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}