AER Lingus still rules OK? Last Wednesday a basement in the bowels of Leinster House resembled a padded cell for the insane. Michael O’Leary has turned the lunatics in the aviation asylum on their heads. A man who was shedding no less than 1,100 jobs at the airport descended to the dungeon to confront a …
Monthly Archive
for: ‘February, 2010’
Mary and the Little Tramp
MICHAEL O’LEARY is offering Mary Coughlan a simple deal. Give me Hangar 6 and I’ll give you 300 jobs. More chillingly put: no hangar no jobs. That is the way he does business. Three arms of the State have joined forces to block him. While Michael is parading himself on the airwaves, they have despatched …
Good Riddance to Invaders
SHED no tears for the Halifax Bank of Scotland; but say a prayer for the 750 people that the retreating bankers are dumping on Ireland’s dole queues. Far from increasing competition in the Irish market the Scottish invaders have spread contagion around Ireland over the last decade. They are exiting a scorched earth, partly of …
Goodbody Takes a Bath in AIB
DID you ever surrender your savings or pension fund to the tender mercies of Goodbody stockbrokers? Or, for that matter, to any stockbroker? Goodbody is owned lock, stock and barrel by the mighty, but deeply troubled AIB.