I m living in Limerick since a year and work for a company based here who send products all over Europe.
As a French we know whats means to lose jobs but if the Mid West start to lose some companies it ll be an excuse and you will all blame Air Lingus..

Just one think I need to know: What a fuck compagnies in Mid west care about Air Lingus?

For the fret??? they all works with DHL (Air Lingus was the worst in 2k6 to lose the luggages and the fret)
For the people who needs to go to London, they can go to Stanstead by Ryan Air, or Heathrow via Dublin with BMI…
Anyway if the connection between Heathrow and Shannon is SO valuable, dont worry an other conpany will make it.

Air lingus’s decison may be criticise but all the drama around it, is bulshit!

Paul: Yeah. And they’ll suffer while we wait.

Niall: Let’s ask the question loud and clear. Did this come from Bertie?

S&C: Now we’ll see how Willie slithers out of it, the double-talking little shit.

Gary: I wouldn’t be surprised if they invaded Iran.

Copernicus: Dead right. It’s one of the weaknesses of the single transferable vote system (though there are many advantages too).

Nora: You should try it.

Kit: Stand up and fight.

CologneMike: You’re right. I should have called him a fucking bollocks.

Show a bit more respect for the hungriest fucking asset stripper of them all, Sir Anthony O’Reilly.

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Air travel is a highly regulated market, not least (as Gary implies) by the limited infrastructure available.

Of course, this was all entirely predictable but it didn’t stop the people of the mid-west voting in the usual plethora of FF gombeen men.

It was bound to happen. Shur Bertie isn’t even going to fight the next election, what does he care anymore? I’m absolutely not a party man, but I know you’ve always got to keep politian’s on their toes. That’s why I voted Fine Gael. And would vote FF in future as need be.

I shutter to think what else this government is going to get up to in the next five years!

That said, I don’t know how this deal was done. A divisive move from a consensus Bertie is confusing. If he had to give something, why didn’t he take a slot from each of Cork , Dublin and Shannon ? There wouldn’t have be any outcry cause it would have been perceived as “statesmanlike”. He’s cobbled together a mix and match all sorts for his current government, secret deals left and right, all in the name of continuity. And now a move where he will alienate the whole south west of the country. I don’t fucking understand.

The move itself has nothing, absolutely fucking nothing to do with Air Lingus management. This is pure politics, and high politics as Mikey Noonan called it .

Does this leave the American troop movements to Iraq as the biggest single revenue earner in Shannon, now ?

Willie O’Dea versus Michael Martin, Shannon slots versus Cork slots,a no brainer. Willie hides behind his moustache. Probably got the ministry for keeping stum. His current outrage as ever, is hilarious.

What about our intrepid journos who all missed this . Fat dumb and happy from the tribunals, they missed the biggest story of the year when it was well known in Air Lingus for the past 9 months. If this move had been outed earlier it wouldn’t have happened.

The timing of this is putrid and reeks of cowardice and opportunism. Shame on our elected officials. Cowardly cunts all of them.