Monday 20 August 2007

Another Flaky Fianna Fáiler

Senator Mary White has a deeply silly letter(sub needed) in today's Irish Times. Silly waffle about how Shannon Airport is FF's contribution to Ireland, etc, etc:
Seán Lemass, considered the establishment of Aer Lingus to be his proudest achievement, and recognised Shannon airport as "a development which would prevent us from being cut off from the rest of the world".
Etc, etc. More about connectivity, etc, etc but, crucially there's a more than a hint of disloyalty to the government. The very same government she supports in the Seanad:
The reluctance of the Government to intervene... raises the question of the purpose of the 25 per cent stake it holds...[in Aer Lingus]. If this shareholding was not intended to influence the strategic development of the company in support of the Government's vision for the country, what purpose was envisaged for it?
Now I kind of agree with her, from an opposite point of view. But is this evidence of a lack of loyalty to the government she supports? I think it is.

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