FIANNA Fáil deputies, senators and MEPs from the western seaboard conceded last night that the Aer Lingus decision to pull its Shannon to Heathrow service was a done deal and that their anger over the decision will not materialise into a rebellion.

THE new Labour leader Eamon Gilmore yesterday called on Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to recall the Dáil a week early.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern once more opted for silence on the Shannon crisis yesterday.