Six weeks ago Aer Lingus cancelled €1500 worth of flights to Washington and despite their legal obligation of a full refund they offered me a voucher instead.
After sending a number of emails I’ve heard nothing since.
If they went down in flames and every last one of their employees crawled from the blazing wreckage begging for help I wouldn’t waste my piss on them.
They were a dreadful airline before the pandemic and they deserve everything that’s coming to them.
Mary (Never) Wong
Ok Paddy
Joe F
Well why don’t you ask your best friend Bozo to help you old boy?
Daisy Chainsaw
The problem is that an Irish company was bought by a foreign entity. Aer Lingus had class and a great reputation until they sold out to IAG.
Andrew
They screwed the Irish people for decades. That’s the reputation they had.
Rosette of Sirius
I’ve been an And Lingus customer for years and I find their service overall to be good to very good. Aircraft are generally clean and staff friendly and approachable. You’d thing that this basic service is common practice but let me tell you it’s far from it on many airlines. Broadly all the American international airlines, BA and plenty others. Their business class service is superior to BAs in every way and their implementation of tech on ground and in air has dramatically improved – in line with the rest of IAG airlines in fairness.
Where they let themselves down are their lounges especially Dublin.
They’re in a fight for survival. We live on an island. Wish for their demise at our peril. If they fail, it’s Ryanair or the boat.
Charger Salmons
Yeah you’re right.
BA,AA,Delta,Emirates,Qatar,KLM,Etihad,Catahy Pacific,Air France,Air Canada and others.
None of them fly from Ireland…
Aer Lingus’ problem is it offers low-cost carrier service at premium prices.I haven’t used them to get to the UK in years.
Rosette of Sirius
You’re missing the point. They don’t have to fly to or from Ireland should they chose note to. Your could argue that even Ryanair could survive without Irish traffic they’ve expanded so broadly.
Aer Lingus does. They have to. They are the only airline that is anchored here. Their potential failure harms our national interest.
Charlie
I can’t be bothered checking the others but both Etihad and Emirates fly out of Dublin. Fantastic first class lounges too. Just saying.
Rosette of Sirius
I’ve never flown Etihad but I’m very fond of Emirates when I fly east and south. Their own lounges are a sight to behold. Perhaps only bested by the Swissair first lounge in Zurich. BA have fallen so far being their other full service competitors it’s shocking.
goldenbrown
not your style to be so coarse old chap, think you’ve had enough gin now
Rosette of Sirius
Kinda how I feel about the Pubs. Reopening that is.
Formerly known as @ireland.com
Why not the queen’s pounds and why not the queen’s BA? Traitor.
Brother Barnabas
you wont get anywhere with emails – being ignored in my experience
but within couple of days of contacting via twitter, I got the refund
…I suppose there’s little point in asking you if you think a high draw might be favoured in the Stewards Cup today after Bataash broke the course record on fast ground yesterday…or where the pro-Palestine supporters are holding their BDS protest today…
Formerly known as @ireland.com
A quarter of positive cases who were told to self isolate in Melbourne, were not home when the police went to check them. That is how your second wave happens.
Sirtuffyknight
This is just a continuation of the first wave, only 103 deaths up to the end of May. You can’t prevent the inevitable in a globalised world, just hope they have appropriate measures in place/treatments available to protect their most vulnerable.
…somebody in Melbourne was telling me the latest outbreak was due to hotels that were requisitioned for quarantine being staffed by people on the minimum wage with no PPE or experience rather than health professionals…
Papi
When you Google John Lewis, it comes up as an electrician in New Jersey.
Please check.
Rosette of Sirius
For me?
#1 – the department store
#2 – the civil rights leader
GiggidyGoo
Turn off the VPN
Charger Salmons
It only needs dav to comment now and the Broadsheet Losers Club will have a quorum.
Examiner No. 3
Thank you, Chair.
Mary (Never) Wong
Oddly Paddy O’Toole isn’t talking too much about the cricket today. Ireland 212-9
Charger Salmons
Oops.
Seriously, you make yourself look a spanner so often it’s embarrassing.
Mary (Never) Wong
what part of hosts stumble to victory had you trouble with James?
England v Ireland: Hosts stumble to victory in second ODI to seal series win
Charger Salmons
What part of winning a 50-over match with 18 overs to spare does your pistachio-sized brain not understand ?
It’s like the final whistle in a game of camogie being blown just after half-time.
Seriously,you’re becoming an embarrassment to yourself.
You make even dav look like an intellectual.
Charger Salmons
At this stage now the government and medical “experts” are simply being totally dishonest with the Irish public.
Nowhere in any of today’s coverage of the ‘ worrying upsurge in Covid-19 causing a possible re-think about re-opening of pubs ‘ are there any facts about the number of hospital admissions.
Look through all the papers and tell me if you find a figure.
You won’t but it’s kind of important don’t you think ?
Hospital admissions and deaths are what define the seriousness of a pandemic not the rate of infection.
The last published data we had last week was that the number of people in ICU with C-19 was in single figures – why no update ?
Likewise, tucked away in the Irish Times coverage of the 85 case ” spike ” was the startling fact that only two of the new infections were as the direct result of international travel.
Yet the country’s airline and tourist industries are being totally decimated.
For what reason ? A C-19 outbreak among a bunch of migrants living in a direct provision centre and working for minimum pay in a meat processing plant so Ireland could have cheap burgers.
And actually the spike has now fallen away to only 38 and they won’t tell us how many of them are non-serious.
Mask wearing ? A total con.You could fit hundreds of thousands of Covid-19 viruses into the full stop at the end of this sentence yet a home-made mask is meant to prevent their spread – give me a break.
Flu deaths ? The influenza season is over now but no record of the number of fatalities has been released.Perhaps there weren’t any.For the first year ever.
You’re being treated like total and utter saps while the people running this crapshoot head off for a six week break.
And all the while hundreds of thousands of people sit at home on €350 a week because the government won’t tell them they don’t have any jobs to go back to and anyway the word PUP sounds way nicer than the dole.
Mary (Never) Wong
We?
Ok Kevin Myers
Charger Salmons
Kevin Myers ? I’ll take that as a compliment.
A fine wordsmith.
Have you finally decided who you are ?
Joe F
I don’t hear you on so much the last few days about your good pal Bozo old boy. Funny that, no mention from you about situation from (where you claim to come from) North of England. Or the shambles of way of reporting, or the report that England had highest rate in Europe. Anyway, you can ignore all that old boy and post about SIR Ian Botham. Funny that also, how you don’t use SIR Keir Starmer, purely because he’s Labour. I’m so sorry we don’t have a class system in Ireland, damn it anyway.
Lucy McGee
@ Joe F
10: know your enemy
20: remember that facts and logic won’t work
30: goto 10
Mary (Never) Wong
I’m not a plastic pretend Paddy
Charlie
It’s not Kevin Myers. Myers spends far less time writing on the internet and gets out of the house occasionally.
Charger Salmons
Writes someone on the internet …
sidhe
you’re not at your sharpest today, really
but then, it is the long weekend
Charlie
You’ll be first to comment again at daybreak tomorrow then?
f_lawless
With deaths, hospitalisations and ICU admissions continuing in rapid decline, what’s happening now in Europe no longer fits the definition of “epidemic”. Maybe you could call it a “casedemic”?
Live stream of a protest underway on the streets of Berlin. They’re marching under the banner “End to the Pandemic”.
Up to the 12th April 29 more people (103) had died than to end May last year (74)
Charger Salmons
If they’re issued weekly why did they stop in April ?
Precisely the point I was trying to make.
There’s huge dishonety around the figures being bandied about by health officials who even now refuse to be questioned properly by the media.
Six. People. So sick of the ongoing hysteria, while no one bats an eyelid at the economy freefalling into the abyss.
Charger Salmons
Well spotted.
And that was from two days ago.
Today’s figure could be even less.
The true price this country is paying for these miniscule admission figures will not be known until the recession kicks in but it will be very,very bloody.
Sirtuffyknight
More like a depression that will make 2008 look like a walk in the park
Nigel
Not having economies capable of dealing with this kind of disruption is a bad thing. Getting economies back to ‘normal’ in a time of predicted increasing disruption is going to keep giving us cyclically wrecked and recovering economies vulnerable to the next looming disruption. If you’re complaining about the current situation, that’s what you need to be looking at. This was obvious and predictable long before 2007, but if we didn’t learn it in 2007, well, maybe we will at the next crash, pandemic, disaster, or whatever.
Sirtuffyknight
So what do you propose?
sidhe
is economic success that much more important than the health of society? do we want to take that risk?
Nigel
I think it would be a good idea to begin approaching the problem as if it weren’t a question of either/or, because this is just gong to keep happening.
sidhe
that’s a good point
it shouldn’t be a case of either/or, but for some reason it does seem to be posed as that
an all-encompassing lockdown like we had before is obviously bad for the economy as a whole, but clearly we need to learn to manage the virus, in that a balance between public health and economic health can be met as a long term solution
I’m not an economist or a doctor so I have no idea how that can be met, to be perfectly honest
Nigel
I propose that if there aren’t economists/doctors/environmentalists/climatologists/disasterologists and assorted other relevant experts that haven’t already begun thinking about this – and there are and they have – then we set them to it – set them the challenge of coming up with viable alternatives to our current models that are fair, sustainable and resilient.
Mary (Never) Wong
Hopefully will annihilate the landlord class
Charger Salmons
I doubt it.
I cleaned up in the last recession.
Charlie
Yea, sure you did you ol’ spoofer.
Nigel
Whether the Salmon is or isn’t a fantasist is beside the point – people do clean up in economic disasters that devastate the majority of the population. That’s why we’re not allowed to change to more sustainable and resilient economic models.
Fred Foster
I.A.G. gave a commitment to the Irish government in 2015 to operate Irish routes on the airline’s Heathrow slots for a period of five years. Paschal O’Donoghue was Finance Minister at the time of the sell off. He is Finance Minister now, in what looks like the final sell out.
Those Heathrow slots are worth millions. Closing Shannon and Cork Aer Lingus operations means that some of those slots can now be made available to other I.A.G companies.
Mary (Never) Wong
they are worth millions yes but are not a transferable asset
This was the aim all along
GiggidyGoo
SAS sold a winter slot pair for €22m in 2015 to Turkish Airlines. They sold a summer slot to what’s believed to be an american airline for €60m. The values of the Aer Lingus slots could be in excess of €1bn in normal times.
Thanks blueshirts
Mary (Never) Wong
I genuinely think you can’t sell these ones
Am I wrong love?
GiggidyGoo
GIYF
GiggidyGoo
I knew it, you knew it, and Paschalscallywag Donohue knew it at the time how this was eventually going to pan out. The sell off of the country’s assets (the rights to the Lottery by Howlin as well, not to mention the gifting to Dinny) had sfa to do with us paying back any notional debts to the bondholders.
Lucy McGee
I like your use of the word or term ‘notional’ vs calling it ‘national’.
Nice and subtle, but also true.
You can be in my gang.
Mary (Never) Wong
Hey there lucy
He’s already in mine
Isn’t he so peachy?
He’d really like if it you call him “Sir”
GiggidyGoo
Sorry.I don’t hang around with wongers
Mary (Never) Wong
Oooph I love it when you play hard to get
GiggidyGoo
The EU buckos make sure to get their pound of flesh. No sooner that the Apple Tax was knocked on the head, Michilín gave up an equivalent amount in ‘support’ of the Covid fund. One way or another, the FFGG’rs wil turn on the Irish money tap to Germany
Matt Pilates
No Daily Star? We’re have a major pun deficit today…
SOQ
Donald Trump announces he will BAN TikTok in the U.S. by executive order as soon as SATURDAY – and he will not let an American firm buy the operation.
I forsee the security angle being used against all of the social media platforms soon, especially as it has been a main line of questioning by the house judiciary committee.
Nigel
Now that’s what I call cancel culture.
SOQ
That’s what I call national security- no word on Grindr mind.
Last time I checked there were security concerns about it too.
Nigel
No actual security measures? One less competitior for Zuckerburg? He banned an app that annoyed him. He canceled it. Weird how it doesn’t count when actual authoritarian power is exercised.
SOQ
I am sure you’ll love China Nigel- we will all chip in for the flight- you’ll be funding the return by yourself- obviously.
Nigel
You think Trump’s going to protect you from the big bad China? About as effectively as he’s stood up for the Uighur Muslims?
SOQ
Thank you for your commentary Titania.
You are like the Hermann Kelly of the right- definitely the same IQ range.
Nigel
That’s as may be, Falstaff, but you yourself are no Nathaniel Hemsworth.
class wario
Love a good fash ‘if you don’t like it here why don’t you go elsewhere’
Lilly
More noncommittal waffle from Hugh Linehan writing in The Irish Times on the Shelbourne statues. I’d like to know what has happened to the Louis Le Brocquy tapestry that used to hang over the fireplace in the lobby.
wearnicehats
It was flogged off at auction for about €70k last year
Lilly
Pity. It was gorgeous there, much nicer than the poo that replaced it.
Johnny Green
…the once most dangerous woman in the world,one the most famous union organizer in US,was baptized on this day in Cork,(her b’day unkown).
“….As the new 20th century approached, Mary Jones was an aging, poor, widowed Irish immigrant, nearly as dispossessed as an American could be. She had survived plague, famine, and fire, only to confront a lonely old age….” https://www.motherjones.com/about/history/
Charger Salmons
It’s a little known fact that the new head of MI6 had a grandfather who was in the IRA.
We live in strange times.
sidhe
how is that relevant to anything?
Lush
Well, it’s an interesting fact.
All that happened subsequently; I dunno.
scottser
You’ll find that quite a chunk of IRA members were in MI6.
f_lawless
RTE is gaslighting the Irish public. These are their opening lines to an article on the massive protest earlier today in Berlin against the German government’s continued lockdown measures.
Dubbing the ordinary people (that can be seen in the close-up photos) as ” hard left and right to conspiracy theorists” is disgraceful journalism and so transparent in its real intent – ie. to dissuade the Irish public from organising in large numbers in protest of the Irish government’s disastrous, ill-conceived policy measures.
The key issue of course is that RTE is Ireland’s national broadcaster.
The BBC are a bit more subtle with their propaganda:
“The BBC’s Damien McGuinness said some participants were from the far right and some were conspiracy theorists who do not believe Covid-19 exists, but others were ordinary people who simply object to the government’s approach to the pandemic.”
Smear by association. By giving mention to fringe extremists (there’ll always be at least a few in every large political gathering) and by mentioning them first in the sentence, the underlying intention is ultimately the same: to skew the reader’s impression of the crowd’s make-up and thereby dissuade the reader from considering similar actions in the UK as reasonable.
Mary (Never) Wong
Wow you need a hug
SOQ
Comments replied to cannot be deleted is it?
Your username has changed on the Berlin link darling.
f_lawless
“Wow you need a hug”
some psychological projection going on there methinks!
Mary (Never) Wong
No you just need a hug
SOQ
That you need to now reply to every comment on this site is interesting- I hope the pay is good?
GiggidyGoo
Doubtful is it’s paid at all. The standard of post isn’t even higher infants.
Six weeks ago Aer Lingus cancelled €1500 worth of flights to Washington and despite their legal obligation of a full refund they offered me a voucher instead.
After sending a number of emails I’ve heard nothing since.
If they went down in flames and every last one of their employees crawled from the blazing wreckage begging for help I wouldn’t waste my piss on them.
They were a dreadful airline before the pandemic and they deserve everything that’s coming to them.
Ok Paddy
Well why don’t you ask your best friend Bozo to help you old boy?
The problem is that an Irish company was bought by a foreign entity. Aer Lingus had class and a great reputation until they sold out to IAG.
They screwed the Irish people for decades. That’s the reputation they had.
I’ve been an And Lingus customer for years and I find their service overall to be good to very good. Aircraft are generally clean and staff friendly and approachable. You’d thing that this basic service is common practice but let me tell you it’s far from it on many airlines. Broadly all the American international airlines, BA and plenty others. Their business class service is superior to BAs in every way and their implementation of tech on ground and in air has dramatically improved – in line with the rest of IAG airlines in fairness.
Where they let themselves down are their lounges especially Dublin.
They’re in a fight for survival. We live on an island. Wish for their demise at our peril. If they fail, it’s Ryanair or the boat.
Yeah you’re right.
BA,AA,Delta,Emirates,Qatar,KLM,Etihad,Catahy Pacific,Air France,Air Canada and others.
None of them fly from Ireland…
Aer Lingus’ problem is it offers low-cost carrier service at premium prices.I haven’t used them to get to the UK in years.
You’re missing the point. They don’t have to fly to or from Ireland should they chose note to. Your could argue that even Ryanair could survive without Irish traffic they’ve expanded so broadly.
Aer Lingus does. They have to. They are the only airline that is anchored here. Their potential failure harms our national interest.
I can’t be bothered checking the others but both Etihad and Emirates fly out of Dublin. Fantastic first class lounges too. Just saying.
I’ve never flown Etihad but I’m very fond of Emirates when I fly east and south. Their own lounges are a sight to behold. Perhaps only bested by the Swissair first lounge in Zurich. BA have fallen so far being their other full service competitors it’s shocking.
not your style to be so coarse old chap, think you’ve had enough gin now
Kinda how I feel about the Pubs. Reopening that is.
Why not the queen’s pounds and why not the queen’s BA? Traitor.
you wont get anywhere with emails – being ignored in my experience
but within couple of days of contacting via twitter, I got the refund
RIP Alan Parker
thanks for letting us see Imelda Quirke’s arse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLI5pK7nwag
Racing Post
Morning Star
I
What are these things? I have never seen them on a newstand in Ireland. Is this a British thing with the front pages?
…I suppose there’s little point in asking you if you think a high draw might be favoured in the Stewards Cup today after Bataash broke the course record on fast ground yesterday…or where the pro-Palestine supporters are holding their BDS protest today…
A quarter of positive cases who were told to self isolate in Melbourne, were not home when the police went to check them. That is how your second wave happens.
This is just a continuation of the first wave, only 103 deaths up to the end of May. You can’t prevent the inevitable in a globalised world, just hope they have appropriate measures in place/treatments available to protect their most vulnerable.
…somebody in Melbourne was telling me the latest outbreak was due to hotels that were requisitioned for quarantine being staffed by people on the minimum wage with no PPE or experience rather than health professionals…
When you Google John Lewis, it comes up as an electrician in New Jersey.
Please check.
For me?
#1 – the department store
#2 – the civil rights leader
Turn off the VPN
It only needs dav to comment now and the Broadsheet Losers Club will have a quorum.
Thank you, Chair.
Oddly Paddy O’Toole isn’t talking too much about the cricket today. Ireland 212-9
Oops.
Seriously, you make yourself look a spanner so often it’s embarrassing.
what part of hosts stumble to victory had you trouble with James?
England v Ireland: Hosts stumble to victory in second ODI to seal series win
What part of winning a 50-over match with 18 overs to spare does your pistachio-sized brain not understand ?
It’s like the final whistle in a game of camogie being blown just after half-time.
Seriously,you’re becoming an embarrassment to yourself.
You make even dav look like an intellectual.
At this stage now the government and medical “experts” are simply being totally dishonest with the Irish public.
Nowhere in any of today’s coverage of the ‘ worrying upsurge in Covid-19 causing a possible re-think about re-opening of pubs ‘ are there any facts about the number of hospital admissions.
Look through all the papers and tell me if you find a figure.
You won’t but it’s kind of important don’t you think ?
Hospital admissions and deaths are what define the seriousness of a pandemic not the rate of infection.
The last published data we had last week was that the number of people in ICU with C-19 was in single figures – why no update ?
Likewise, tucked away in the Irish Times coverage of the 85 case ” spike ” was the startling fact that only two of the new infections were as the direct result of international travel.
Yet the country’s airline and tourist industries are being totally decimated.
For what reason ? A C-19 outbreak among a bunch of migrants living in a direct provision centre and working for minimum pay in a meat processing plant so Ireland could have cheap burgers.
And actually the spike has now fallen away to only 38 and they won’t tell us how many of them are non-serious.
Mask wearing ? A total con.You could fit hundreds of thousands of Covid-19 viruses into the full stop at the end of this sentence yet a home-made mask is meant to prevent their spread – give me a break.
Flu deaths ? The influenza season is over now but no record of the number of fatalities has been released.Perhaps there weren’t any.For the first year ever.
You’re being treated like total and utter saps while the people running this crapshoot head off for a six week break.
And all the while hundreds of thousands of people sit at home on €350 a week because the government won’t tell them they don’t have any jobs to go back to and anyway the word PUP sounds way nicer than the dole.
We?
Ok Kevin Myers
Kevin Myers ? I’ll take that as a compliment.
A fine wordsmith.
Have you finally decided who you are ?
I don’t hear you on so much the last few days about your good pal Bozo old boy. Funny that, no mention from you about situation from (where you claim to come from) North of England. Or the shambles of way of reporting, or the report that England had highest rate in Europe. Anyway, you can ignore all that old boy and post about SIR Ian Botham. Funny that also, how you don’t use SIR Keir Starmer, purely because he’s Labour. I’m so sorry we don’t have a class system in Ireland, damn it anyway.
@ Joe F
10: know your enemy
20: remember that facts and logic won’t work
30: goto 10
I’m not a plastic pretend Paddy
It’s not Kevin Myers. Myers spends far less time writing on the internet and gets out of the house occasionally.
Writes someone on the internet …
you’re not at your sharpest today, really
but then, it is the long weekend
You’ll be first to comment again at daybreak tomorrow then?
With deaths, hospitalisations and ICU admissions continuing in rapid decline, what’s happening now in Europe no longer fits the definition of “epidemic”. Maybe you could call it a “casedemic”?
Live stream of a protest underway on the streets of Berlin. They’re marching under the banner “End to the Pandemic”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B7MoFME5zc&app=desktop
Charger. Flu update are issued weekly although they’re had to find and they’re only up to 12th April so far
https://www.hpsc.ie/a-z/respiratory/influenza/seasonalinfluenza/surveillance/influenzasurveillancereports/20192020season/Influenza_Surveillance_Report_Week%2015_%202020%20v1.0.pdf
Up to the 12th April 29 more people (103) had died than to end May last year (74)
If they’re issued weekly why did they stop in April ?
Precisely the point I was trying to make.
There’s huge dishonety around the figures being bandied about by health officials who even now refuse to be questioned properly by the media.
Actually they are all up to date here
https://www.hpsc.ie/a-z/respiratory/influenza/seasonalinfluenza/surveillance/influenzasurveillancereports/20192020season/
conspiracy theory over
Fair play.Thanks for that.
Happy to admit I was wrong.
STOP THE FUPPING LIGHTS
wait til he realises we have been independent since 1921!
Yes- the RTÉ MI5 list is interesting.
There are six people currently hospitalised for Covid, four of whom are in ICU https://mobile.twitter.com/paulreiddublin/status/1288713197369925632
Six. People. So sick of the ongoing hysteria, while no one bats an eyelid at the economy freefalling into the abyss.
Well spotted.
And that was from two days ago.
Today’s figure could be even less.
The true price this country is paying for these miniscule admission figures will not be known until the recession kicks in but it will be very,very bloody.
More like a depression that will make 2008 look like a walk in the park
Not having economies capable of dealing with this kind of disruption is a bad thing. Getting economies back to ‘normal’ in a time of predicted increasing disruption is going to keep giving us cyclically wrecked and recovering economies vulnerable to the next looming disruption. If you’re complaining about the current situation, that’s what you need to be looking at. This was obvious and predictable long before 2007, but if we didn’t learn it in 2007, well, maybe we will at the next crash, pandemic, disaster, or whatever.
So what do you propose?
is economic success that much more important than the health of society? do we want to take that risk?
I think it would be a good idea to begin approaching the problem as if it weren’t a question of either/or, because this is just gong to keep happening.
that’s a good point
it shouldn’t be a case of either/or, but for some reason it does seem to be posed as that
an all-encompassing lockdown like we had before is obviously bad for the economy as a whole, but clearly we need to learn to manage the virus, in that a balance between public health and economic health can be met as a long term solution
I’m not an economist or a doctor so I have no idea how that can be met, to be perfectly honest
I propose that if there aren’t economists/doctors/environmentalists/climatologists/disasterologists and assorted other relevant experts that haven’t already begun thinking about this – and there are and they have – then we set them to it – set them the challenge of coming up with viable alternatives to our current models that are fair, sustainable and resilient.
Hopefully will annihilate the landlord class
I doubt it.
I cleaned up in the last recession.
Yea, sure you did you ol’ spoofer.
Whether the Salmon is or isn’t a fantasist is beside the point – people do clean up in economic disasters that devastate the majority of the population. That’s why we’re not allowed to change to more sustainable and resilient economic models.
I.A.G. gave a commitment to the Irish government in 2015 to operate Irish routes on the airline’s Heathrow slots for a period of five years. Paschal O’Donoghue was Finance Minister at the time of the sell off. He is Finance Minister now, in what looks like the final sell out.
Those Heathrow slots are worth millions. Closing Shannon and Cork Aer Lingus operations means that some of those slots can now be made available to other I.A.G companies.
they are worth millions yes but are not a transferable asset
This was the aim all along
SAS sold a winter slot pair for €22m in 2015 to Turkish Airlines. They sold a summer slot to what’s believed to be an american airline for €60m. The values of the Aer Lingus slots could be in excess of €1bn in normal times.
Thanks blueshirts
I genuinely think you can’t sell these ones
Am I wrong love?
GIYF
I knew it, you knew it, and Paschalscallywag Donohue knew it at the time how this was eventually going to pan out. The sell off of the country’s assets (the rights to the Lottery by Howlin as well, not to mention the gifting to Dinny) had sfa to do with us paying back any notional debts to the bondholders.
I like your use of the word or term ‘notional’ vs calling it ‘national’.
Nice and subtle, but also true.
You can be in my gang.
Hey there lucy
He’s already in mine
Isn’t he so peachy?
He’d really like if it you call him “Sir”
Sorry.I don’t hang around with wongers
Oooph I love it when you play hard to get
The EU buckos make sure to get their pound of flesh. No sooner that the Apple Tax was knocked on the head, Michilín gave up an equivalent amount in ‘support’ of the Covid fund. One way or another, the FFGG’rs wil turn on the Irish money tap to Germany
No Daily Star? We’re have a major pun deficit today…
Donald Trump announces he will BAN TikTok in the U.S. by executive order as soon as SATURDAY – and he will not let an American firm buy the operation.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8582559/Donald-Trump-announces-BAN-TikTok-U-S.html
I forsee the security angle being used against all of the social media platforms soon, especially as it has been a main line of questioning by the house judiciary committee.
Now that’s what I call cancel culture.
That’s what I call national security- no word on Grindr mind.
Last time I checked there were security concerns about it too.
No actual security measures? One less competitior for Zuckerburg? He banned an app that annoyed him. He canceled it. Weird how it doesn’t count when actual authoritarian power is exercised.
I am sure you’ll love China Nigel- we will all chip in for the flight- you’ll be funding the return by yourself- obviously.
You think Trump’s going to protect you from the big bad China? About as effectively as he’s stood up for the Uighur Muslims?
Thank you for your commentary Titania.
You are like the Hermann Kelly of the right- definitely the same IQ range.
That’s as may be, Falstaff, but you yourself are no Nathaniel Hemsworth.
Love a good fash ‘if you don’t like it here why don’t you go elsewhere’
More noncommittal waffle from Hugh Linehan writing in The Irish Times on the Shelbourne statues. I’d like to know what has happened to the Louis Le Brocquy tapestry that used to hang over the fireplace in the lobby.
It was flogged off at auction for about €70k last year
Pity. It was gorgeous there, much nicer than the poo that replaced it.
…the once most dangerous woman in the world,one the most famous union organizer in US,was baptized on this day in Cork,(her b’day unkown).
“….As the new 20th century approached, Mary Jones was an aging, poor, widowed Irish immigrant, nearly as dispossessed as an American could be. She had survived plague, famine, and fire, only to confront a lonely old age….”
https://www.motherjones.com/about/history/
It’s a little known fact that the new head of MI6 had a grandfather who was in the IRA.
We live in strange times.
how is that relevant to anything?
Well, it’s an interesting fact.
All that happened subsequently; I dunno.
You’ll find that quite a chunk of IRA members were in MI6.
RTE is gaslighting the Irish public. These are their opening lines to an article on the massive protest earlier today in Berlin against the German government’s continued lockdown measures.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0801/1156885-berlin-covid-19-protest/
“A Berlin protest against coronavirus restrictions drew thousands, from the hard left and right to conspiracy theorists.
Police put turnout at 15,000, well below the 500,000 organisers had announced”
Contrast that with some actual photos of the event to get a sense of the scale of it.
https://news.yahoo.com/thousands-protest-berlin-against-coronavirus-115205349.html
Dubbing the ordinary people (that can be seen in the close-up photos) as ” hard left and right to conspiracy theorists” is disgraceful journalism and so transparent in its real intent – ie. to dissuade the Irish public from organising in large numbers in protest of the Irish government’s disastrous, ill-conceived policy measures.
Coronavirus: Thousands protest in Germany against restrictions https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-53622797
Is this better love?
The key issue of course is that RTE is Ireland’s national broadcaster.
The BBC are a bit more subtle with their propaganda:
“The BBC’s Damien McGuinness said some participants were from the far right and some were conspiracy theorists who do not believe Covid-19 exists, but others were ordinary people who simply object to the government’s approach to the pandemic.”
Smear by association. By giving mention to fringe extremists (there’ll always be at least a few in every large political gathering) and by mentioning them first in the sentence, the underlying intention is ultimately the same: to skew the reader’s impression of the crowd’s make-up and thereby dissuade the reader from considering similar actions in the UK as reasonable.
Wow you need a hug
Comments replied to cannot be deleted is it?
Your username has changed on the Berlin link darling.
“Wow you need a hug”
some psychological projection going on there methinks!
No you just need a hug
That you need to now reply to every comment on this site is interesting- I hope the pay is good?
Doubtful is it’s paid at all. The standard of post isn’t even higher infants.
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