Prohibited Items
To ensure a hassle-free and pleasant experience travelling through Ireland West Airport Knock, do not pack the following prohibited items in your carry-on luggage. These items must be placed in your check-in baggage. If these items are discovered in your carry-on luggage you will be requested to surrender the items for disposal.
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Guns, Firearms & Weapons; any object capable or appearing capable, of discharging a projectile or causing injury, including:
- All firearms (Pistols, Revolvers, Rifles, Shotguns etc)
- Replica and imitation firearms
- Component parts of firearms (excluding telescopic sighting devices & sights)
- Air Pistols, rifles and pellet guns
- Signal flare pistols
- Starter pistols
- Toy guns of all types
- Ball Bearing Guns
- Industrial Bolt and Nail Guns
- Cross bows
- Catapults
- Harpoon & Spear Guns
- Animal Humane Killers
- Stun or shocking devices e.g. Cattle prods, ballistic conducted energy weapons (taser)
- Lighters shaped like a firearm
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Pointed/edged Weapons & Sharp Objects; pointed or bladed articles capable of causing injury including:
- Axes & hatches
- Arrows & darts
- Crampons (grappling iron, hooked bar of iron, or plate with iron spikes used in mountaineering)
- Harpoons & Spears
- Ice axes & ice picks
- Ice Skates
- Lockable or flick knives with blades of any length
- Knives, including ceremonial, religious and hunting knives, made of metal or any other material strong enough to be used as a potential weapon.
- Meat cleavers
- Machetes
- Open razors and blades (excluding safety or disposal razors with blades enclosed in cartridge)
- Sabres, Swords, & swordsticks
- Scalpels
- Scissors with blades of any length
- Ski and Walking/hiking poles
- Throwing stars
- Tradesman’s tools that have the potential to be used as a pointed or edged weapon e.g. drills and drill bits, box cutters, utility knives, all saws
- Screwdrivers, crowbars, hammers, pliers, wrenches/spanners, blow torches
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Blunt Instruments: any blunt instrument capable of causing injury, including:
- Baseball and softballs bats
- Clubs or batons – rigid or flexible – e.g. Billy clubs, blackjacks (truncheon or leather covered lead with flexible shaft), night sticks & batons
- Cricket Bats
- Golf Clubs
- Hockey and hurley sticks
- Lacrosse sticks
- Kayak and Canoe paddles
- Skateboards
- Billiard, snooker and pool cues
- Fishing rods
- Martial arts equipment e.g. knuckle dusters, clubs, coshes, rice flails, num – chucks, kubatons, kubassaunts
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Explosives and flammable substances; any explosive or highly combustible substance which poses a risk to the health of passengers and crew or the security/safety of aircraft or property, including:
- Ammunition
- Blasting caps
- Detonators & fuses
- Explosives and explosive devices
- Replica or imitation explosive material or devices
- Mines & other explosive military stores
- Grenades of all types
- Gas & gas containers e.g. Butane, propane, acetylene, oxygen – in large volume
- Fireworks, flares in any form and other pyrotechnics (including party poppers and toy caps)
- Non safety matches
- Smoke generating canisters or cartridges
- Flammable liquid fuel e.g. Petrol/gasoline, diesel, lighter fluid, alcohol, ethanol
- Aerosol spray paint
- Turpentine & paint thinner
- Alcoholic beverages exceeding 70% by volume (140% proof)
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Chemical and toxic substances; any chemical or toxic substances which poses a risk to the health of passengers and crew or the security/safety of aircraft or property, including:
- Acids and alkalis e.g. spillable "wet" batteries
- Corrosive or Bleaching Substances – e.g. mercury, chlorine
- Disabling or incapacitating sprays – e.g. mace, pepper spray, tear gas
- Radioactive material – e.g. medicinal or commercial isotopes
- Poisons
- Infectious or biological hazardous material – e.g. infected blood, bacteria and viruses
- Material capable of spontaneous ignition or combustion
- Fire extinguishers (excepting as authorised by fire protocols and as aircraft emergency equipment)
Note: Any sharp objects in checked in baggage should be securely wrapped to prevent injury to screeners and handling personnel.
For safety reasons, there are a number of items that cannot be taken on any aircraft, so please do not pack them in any luggage (carry-on or check-in):
- Explosives, including detonators, fuses, grenades, mines and explosives
- Gases; propane, butane
- Flammable liquids, including Gasoline, methanol
- Flammable solids and reactive substances including Magnesium, firelighters, fireworks, flares
- Oxidizers and organic peroxides, including Bleach, car body repair kits
- Toxic or infectious substances, including rat Poison, infected blood
- Radioactive material, including Medicinal or commercial isotopes
- Corrosives, including Mercury, vehicle batteries
- Vehicle fuel system components, which have contained fuel