An overhaul of baggage handling systems at Dublin and Cork Airports to deal with new explosive detection requirements under EU rules is being initiated by the Dublin Airport Authority (daa).
According to the Irish Independent, the upgrade at Dublin Airport alone was previously estimated to cost around €13m.
According to the report, the baggage screening systems at Dublin's Terminal 2 - from which most of the airport's flights to North America operate - is set to be upgraded by 2020, with the work beginning next year. It's anticipated that work at Terminal 1 will be started in 2019 and finished by 2023.
At Cork Airport, the new installation is also slated to begin in 2019 and be completed by 2023, according to the Independent.