State ‘must back Ryanair’

A PROMINENT member of Fianna Fáil who heads the lobby group formed to overturn Aer Lingus’s Shannon/Heathrow decision has called on the Government to back the Ryanair EGM motion to reverse the decision.

The EGM will have to be convened within eight weeks following the Ryanair move on Tuesday.

John Brassil, who chairs the newly formed Atlantic Connectivity Alliance, said Ryanair’s move is welcome in the context of enabling the Government to reverse the decision of the Aer Lingus executive management team of one week ago.