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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Barry Glendenning

Shamrock Rovers, FC Shkupi and ‘evil’ airport-related bureaucracy

Scenes that no one likes to see but really likes to see, last week.
Scenes that no one likes to see but really likes to see, last week. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA

FLIGHT! FLIGHT! FLIGHT!

Anyone who has flown through Dublin airport in recent months will probably be aware it is suffering from huge problems. Staff shortages in all areas have resulted in the kind of lengthy queues for cancelled or delayed flights that compel frustrated passengers to tweet their dissatisfaction to followers who don’t care because the misfortune is being suffered by somebody else and besides … apologies, The Fiver is digressing. On Tuesday night, League of Ireland champions Shamrock Rovers take on North Macedonian side FC Shkupi in the second leg of their Big Vase qualifying round, knowing a win will guarantee them group-stage action at the very least this season. The Super Hoops are 3-1 up from the first leg in Tallaght and will almost certainly have flown to Skopje International airport full of optimism, unless of course their hosts engineered a revenge plot to divert their plane elsewhere.

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