along with the issue of Gama being lost in the Kebab wrapper, the issue or Dublin Airport/Aer Lingus was the question that Joe Higgins was asking when the circus began. Fine Lenihan is unfit for his office but the media and new media are off the track of the big story. If you want racism look at McDowell’s comments to Dail committee on the very same day.
But airlines was the story. The PD led FF Govt. didn’t get its way (fully) and the FF’ers got to sell off Aer Lingus and fudge the terminal 2 issue. Aer Lingus without a fight is gone to carpet baggers, asset strippers or British Airways. Yes Govt. hold 25.x% but thats less than half what they are giving away at knock down prices. Yes staff hold 14%? but soon all the staff will be sacked at the rate they are going.
FF cling on to 2 North Dublin seats, GV. Wright “I have no problem with it whatsoever. I couldn’t give a cobblers,” he said when asked about the €12,700 he received from lobbyist Frank Dunlop and developer Owen O’Callaghan. & GV publicly admitted knocking down a woman pedestrian, nurse Anne Butler while having been driving after drinking then providing 67 microgrammes per 100 millilitres in a breath sample, Mr Wright’s 2 year driving ban is due to end this November. FF’s other TD in Dublin North is ????? who? Jim Glennon who’s dad was an FF councillor in the 60’s and Jim has 6 Irish Rugby Int. Caps!! wonderful. Ray Burke who last held this seat for FF is serving time in a Dublin prison for taxation offences, he is due out in June, Mr. Burke has a 90K pension from his Dail Ministries 45K of which will be waiting for him when he gets out, as will a very big legal bill.
There isn’t a house in North Dublin that isn’t or wasn’t connected to the Airport is some way. The downsizing yellow packing and out sourcing of real peoples jobs in the Airport does not go unnoticed.