Joe Duffy took the typical RTÉ line - sympathising with the poor semi-State workers and not asking them any hard questions. They all made it out as though the EI management are complete fools, taking the supposedly illogical decision to drop the SNN-LHR service. The lady who spoke venomously about Dermot Mannion heading off from Shannon to "Stormount" (sic) to meet Ian Paisley also showed how partitionist people in the Republic can be vis-a-vis Northern Ireland. She has probably never set foot in the place, although it is part of the same United Kingdom that she so wants Shannon to be connected with!