Concerns persist as coffers grow

It looks like the ‘will they won’t they’ saga on Aer Lingus is coming to an end, writes Paul Mills.

They say that a week in politics is a long time. Clearly, a few hours in politics are a long time. On Tuesday morning we were still being led to believe that while the Government had received the report on the proposed sale of the State’s 25% shareholding to IAG, owners of British Airways and Iberia, its decision on which way it was going to jump could still take up to two weeks.

Later on, of course, it became clear that lest anyone steal Enda’s thunder, the news that a decision was imminent had to come from him and so it did.