Shannon's day of concerted action has begun to reverse the EI decision to quit snn-LHR. Once again there was major coverage on the topic on Radio 1's Morning Ireland radio show. None other that Jackie Healy Rea, TD has been roped in to champion snn's cause! To our British readers and others this guy is a Irish MP from the constituency of South Kerry. He is quite a stage Paddy but cute in a sly sort of way. He and his son own a pub and a few businesses and they both portray a colourful near country bumpkin image to their audience and to the media.
It shows how desperate the snn crowd are when they get this guy signed on for their cause when a large amount of the constituency he represents is probablly closer to Cork than snn and this is forgetting conviently his own local Kerry Airport at Farranfore between Killarney and Tralee.
Well, if snn gets back her LHR flights from EI in some fashion another campaign must be started to reinstate the 5th ORK-LHR service for next summer, reinstate Madrid and also to begin a direct flight from Cork to JFK from next year. Why not? If it is good enough for snn it is good enough for Cork to make similar demands.