Airport debt dispute - Consultants should drop contract

IT is totally unacceptable that financial consultants, appointed to act as independent brokers in the ongoing debt dispute between Cork and Dublin airport authorities ...

... should also be hired to advise the latter on the break-up of the State-owned Great Southern Hotels group.

In this potential conflict of interest scenario, there are compelling reasons for BDO Simpson Xavier to drop one or other of the highly lucrative contracts.