Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Belfast News Letter, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Eager supporters turned up at George Best City Airport yesterday lunchtime, overjoyed to jet off to Slovenia to back their team after they became the first Irish Premiership side to reach the main draw of a European competition. But instead of cheering in Stožice Stadium tonight, they’ll be watching Larne battle Olimpija Ljubljana on TV from their usual social club –drowning their sorrows while staring at Euros in their pockets that they’ll never spend.
Advertisement Advertisement Says superfan Lyn Kernohan: “There were about 22 of us stuck in the airport for six hours until we got the announcement the flights were cancelled. "There were two wee children along – they were the worst of it, they were so excited when they walked into the airport. It was absolutely heart-breaking.
” Most of yesterday’s flights into and out of City Airport were cancelled due to freezing fog around Belfast. And while the gathered Larne fans tried to hurriedly arrange substitute journeys, they didn’t have any luck. Advertisement Advertisement "The problem was, we had to go from Belfast to London and then a connecting flight to Slovenia,” says Lyn.
"While we could have got a London flight the following morning, there weren’t any connections that would have got us to the matc.
