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For what it's worth: A lot of American military planes have landed at Shannon airport as a half way point between the US and middle East for refuelling. For a decent while after 9/11 the Irish taxpayer was picking up the fuel bill when they did as a gesture of goodwill / solidarity. I vaguely recall hearing a million a day at the time but that could be rubbish.
Ireland is strictly neutral but in practice it gets scooched around a lot for friends and / or obvious land grabs by dictators. We've done sapper training in Ukraine for example.
Eerr...
If planes are landing then it's a matter of resources to do the inspections. Does any landed plane get boarded like the commercial ones?
We're neutral militarily, not morally. :)
And yeah inspections on landed planes would be a resourcing issue but I took from reading that article that it was an airspace violation in this instance.
Also, what are the regulations for manifests of said flights? Are these military flights (and, i assume, except if so)? Should reduce the effort otherwise - although they can always lie...