Airport jobs impasse - Coughlan must find a solution

THE hundreds of thousands of unemployed people — 434,700 last week — watching the bun fight between the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) and Ryanair are entitled to be angry.

Everyone in this country looking for work and everyone who needs this country to rebuild its economy should be angry.

This stand-off seems to be an outbreak of petulance we can ill afford. Not only does it jeopardise the prospect of securing jobs for Dublin, it makes us all look like idiots. If this row cannot be resolved quickly — and there is just a chance that it might — and the jobs secured, we may deserve to be so considered.