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“Are you being looked after? Did you get a coffee?” Michael O’Leary’s former right-hand man asks. It’s a level of solicitousness not usually associated with his old alma mater, where a visiting hack might have been lucky to get a cardboard cup of instant.

At Fáilte Ireland headquarters, however, an array of delicious pastries and fresh filter coffee is at hand. Though if Fáilte Ireland couldn’t do hospitality, you’d worry.

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