Fifty shades of green

Despite a national reluctance to admit it, British Airways is probably Aer Lingus’s best suitor

David McWilliams
David McWilliams

Irish politicians were almost unanimously delighted to abandon our national currency and join a currency of countries with which we do modest trade and with whom we have almost no traditional demographic links. These same politicians appear to be unwilling to sell their bit of our national airline to the one carrier that makes commercial sense.

Why is this?

Why would you wholeheartedly give away the currency – which affects everyone’s lives profoundly ...