Of Armageddon, Willie Walsh and the airport mess

TO lose one chief executive of Aer Lingus may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like callousness.

With apologies to Oscar Wilde, that’s what the Government fears most when it comes to the Shannon Airport mess.

When Willie O’Dea spoke about Armageddon it was about the loss of the Heathrow slots to the mid-west. When the Government thinks of Armageddon, it is a scenario involving Dermot Mannion and his top management team walking after being compromised by the Government at an EGM.