Fine Gael accuses Government of ‘cover up’ on routes

THE Government was last night accused of engaging in a “cover up” to disguise its response to the Shannon crisis.

The opposition claims were strenuously denied by the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste yesterday, who rejected calls for a full statement to the Dáil.

Following yesterday’s report in the Irish Examiner which revealed that the Taoiseach’s top official knew of the potential pullout of Aer Lingus’s Shannon-Heathrow service, Fine Gael said it was not credible that no one at cabinet level knew of Shannon’s fate.