Aer Rianta's legal proceedings against Dublin taxi-drivers were adjourned indefinitely yesterday after counsel for the company told the High Court the drivers' blockade of Dublin Airport had been lifted.
The company got a temporary injunction on Wednesday re straining a number of named taxi-drivers, or anyone acting in concert with them, from blocking the entrances to the airport.
The matter was adjourned until yesterday when the company applied, at a morning hearing, for an interlocutory injunction against three named taxi-drivers who appeared in court. If the order had been granted it would have restrained the three men or anyone with notice of the order from blocking the airport entrances pending the outcome of a High Court action.
When the application was about to be heard, a barrister informed the court that she had been retained by SIPTU to represent one of the three men.
At a resumed hearing in the afternoon, Mr Paul Gallagher SC, for Aer Rianta, said the information was that the blockade at the airport had been lifted.
Mr Justice McCracken said he would make an order adjourning generally the company's application for an interlocutory injunction and would give liberty to the company to apply to the court should there be any change in circumstances. He said the interim order would lapse.
The judge told the three taximen before the court that nothing would be done unless there was more blockading of the airport, when the matter could come back before the court.
Aer Rianta's legal affairs manager, Ms Marie Walsh, said vehicles carrying passengers to the airport had been forced to leave them at points away from the airport and enormous disruption had been caused.