French flight disruption set to ease

Normal service is expected to resume tomorrow morning after a day of disruption to Irish flights due to nationwide protests in…

Normal service is expected to resume tomorrow morning after a day of disruption to Irish flights due to nationwide protests in France.

Strike action in France delayed many flights to and from the country in the seventh day of protests against centred around pension reform plans.

A spokeswoman for Ryanair said that arrivals and departures were running about an hour late. Aer Lingus said they were running around 30 minutes late.

Irish Ferries said its services were operating normally.

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The action by teachers, postal workers, hospital workers and other civil servants in France today coincided with transport workers' seventh day of strikes to challenge President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to reform the economy.

The protests by civil servants over issues ranging from pension reform to the cost of living disrupted schools, trains, postal services and airports. The strikes are planned to last 24 hours, although rail workers are striking indefinitely.

Rail workers voted to continue the strike they began last week so that it overlapped with today's one-day walkout by civil servants.