The chairman of the Cork Airport Authority Joe Gantly last night denied he was under any pressure to resign over the ongoing controversy about the airport's debt and warned that such speculation was damaging to the airport's future.
Mr Gantly took the unusual step last night of issuing a statement to reject reports on local radio and in Cork papers that there was dissatisfaction among authority board members over his handling of the issue of who pays for the new Cork airport terminal.
On Monday, Mr Gantly presented a proposal from Government to the authority board that Cork would pay €100 million to the Dublin Airport Authority for the new terminal, ancillary developments and a long-standing debt. The board is understood to have rejected the proposal.
Last night, Mr Gantly said his position as "chairman of the board of Cork Airport Authority is not the subject of discussion at board level".