All joking aside for a moment ...
All joking and "points scoring" aside for a moment, one thing this incident does highlight is the increase in security issues surrounding Irish aircraft and airports over the last 12 or so months. In that period we've had one very high profile security breach at EIDW resulting in a ‘revamp’ of passenger security, one week with 3 bomb alerts at the airport (anyone else remember the permanent bomb ‘detection’ in place at the entrances in the 1980’s?) and 3 EI registered aircraft affected by hoax bomb warnings all reported in the media.
Now I'm not suggesting any conspiracy here, but could the way in which this incident was handled suggest a “jitteriness” amongst the professionals involved?
JAS