{"id":229,"date":"2006-03-16T17:29:10","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T17:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/2006\/selling-the-%e2%80%98shamrock%e2%80%99\/"},"modified":"2006-03-16T17:55:04","modified_gmt":"2006-03-16T17:55:04","slug":"selling-the-%e2%80%98shamrock%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2006\/selling-the-%e2%80%98shamrock%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"selling the \u2018Shamrock\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/news\/nvgrfx\/lingus_175lc.gif\" \/>SIPTU members in Aer Lingus picketed the Department of Transport in Kildare Street, Dublin, from 12.30pm until 1.30pm in protest at the proposal to privatise Aer Lingus. SIPTU National Industrial Secretary Michael Halpenny said, \u201cit is ironic that Government Ministers are flying out all over the world this week on our national airline to promote the \u2019Shamrock\u2019 in the best of all social, cultural and economic senses, only to return next week with the apparent intention of selling the \u2018Shamrock\u2019 on Aer Lingus planes to the highest bidder.?? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siptu.ie\/CampaignsandCurrentIssues\/AerLingus-PrivatisationNoSolution\/Name,3900,en.html\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SIPTU members in Aer Lingus picketed the Department of Transport in Kildare Street, Dublin, from 12.30pm until 1.30pm in protest at the proposal to privatise Aer Lingus. SIPTU National Industrial Secretary Michael Halpenny said, \u201cit is ironic that Government Ministers are flying out all over the world this week on our national airline to promote&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2006\/selling-the-%e2%80%98shamrock%e2%80%99\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">selling the \u2018Shamrock\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}