Irish Examiner view: Where do the big bucks stop?

Dublin Airport boss heads for more lucrative pastures

Queues outside the old terminal building at Dublin Airport last week. Picture: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

It’s a commonly heard expression when captains of industry face business and financial challenges that this is why “they earn the big bucks”. There can’t be many workers who haven’t been irritated by that phrase more than once.

In the case of running airports there are demands a-plenty. The problems of Dublin Airport and its over-expansive pandemic redundancy programme are widely understood.