Interesting background alright, Hobie! From the article:
"It was not clear how the pilots funded their purchase, but some sources suggested that funds from a pilots' pension scheme - The Irish Airline Pilots' Superannuation Fund - which is in surplus, may have been used."
A surplus in an Irish pension fund being used to buy 24 million Euro worth of shares? Pray, tell us more - obviously not the pension fund that had a large hole and was looking for 2-300 million Euro of the IPO money to plug it? I don't know any Irish pension funds in surplus - Mick O'Leary should give the people a job straight away running Aer Lingus.