Aer Lingus’s new policies betray our cultural heritage

People still have to learn that Aer Lingus is no longer ‘ours’, but just another commercial operation with planes taking customers from A to B.

People still have to learn that Aer Lingus is no longer ‘ours’, but just another commercial operation with planes taking customers from A to B.

Ironically, it was a Limerick undertaker who put the Shannon Airport saga best this week when he said: ‘‘That services are disappearing through so-called progression sounds strange.” Stranger still, he might have added, as the week wore on.

This complaint vividly illustrates the differences between the ‘‘new Ireland’’ ...