Daniel McConnell: Virulent strain of Fine Gael-itis grounds aviation sector

The treatment of Ireland’s aviation sector will go down as perhaps the greatest failure of our response to Covid-19

Glenn Jacobs, Mick Fanning, and Cormac Harte, all pilots from the Irish Airline Pilots' Association  protest outside the sitting of the Dáil in the Convention Centre in Dublin this week. Picture: Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie

While there has been much cheer about the pace of the vaccine rollout, this week saw a fresh outbreak of a worrying condition affecting some of our country’s leaders.

The condition, known as Fine Gael-itis, is not a new condition but is one that has surfaced from time to time over the past 10 years.