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Thu 04 Apr 2010Irish flights grounded as Icelandic ash shuts airspace
The Department of Transport has said flights may be grounded for a number of days after an ash cloud from a volcano eruption in Iceland drifted into northern Europe.
Indications are that aircraft will not be able to move tomorrow and perhaps for a number of days Maurice Mullen, assistant secretary of the Department of Transport said after a meeting of the government taskforce on emergency planning this evening.
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