Yes there is (trouble ahead) Agent 12 .... but ... who will have the trouble? The most important thing is, what did they tell you about the bond? If it is like the one I have just been told was recently signed by two Irish pilots it contains a considerable financial risk and immediate exposure for you (as in legal exposure before even starting the course). Also, you are being offered other peoples jobs, almost certainly not because FR intend that you will really get the Dublin base - but for the purposes of putting pressure on Dublin pilots. Similarly, for several weeks FR has been spreading rumours that pilots from the U.S. will be coming to Dublin. In fact, the entire world seems to have been offered jobs in Dublin. But does everybody really believe these offers are real?
The background to all of this has been explained by letter to all FR Dublin pilots in the past couple of days, and what you say is so close to what they say that I am confident you are being cleverly manipulated.
But do you really believe that FR intends to deliver on its promises? When eventually you find yourself without a Dublin base and having the Bond extracted from your salary without so much as a "by your leave" what will you do? Answer: you will either have to sue or you will have to join the many Ryanair pilots who just accepted this kind of behaviour as being part of Ryanair life. But like all of those who have gone before you won't sue without a pilots association to help, which means you are going to pay.
Before you make a decision surely you should make sure you know just how quickly that Bond might become payable (according to what I am told it could be due very soon). You can find out by contacting IALPA (and I presume BALPA). Once you have informed yourself the decision is all yours. But to sign without even knowing the financial risks you run seems especially dumb. I take it from the fact that you asked the question that you would be prepared to take a Dublin base from the many Ryanair pilots at bases other than Dublin who have been "promised" such a base by Ryanair? Not to mention being willing to sign up on the basis of taking other peoples jobs?
What is even more confusing to me is the fact that other pilots are getting FR jobs without having to sign up for the same conditions. You just need to know how to play your cards. They certainly need lots of pilots, the only issue is the terms you find acceptable.