91-Year-Old Athlone Man Waiting For Flight Out Of Dubai
The Big Story
Wednesday, 4 March 2026 - 13 minutes
A 91-year-old Athlone man is among those waiting for a flight out of Dubai.
Terry Carmody, was on holidays with his family and was due to fly home on Monday but the flight was cancelled.
Two Emirates flights between Dublin and Dubai are going ahead today, the first ones since hostilities broke out last weekend.
Terry's grandson in law Aaron Bannon Whelan says they arranged a flight themselves for Friday but there's been no contact from the embassy:
