Originally Posted by liffy2A
Rumour has it they lost the court case last week against the Irish goverment about the Knock PSO route
No rumour - fact. See the
Irish Times report.
Originally Posted by en2r
I was amused to see them advertising recently in the Irish Independent for a head of Legal affairs. Presumably since they now take so many legal cases (seems to be a new one every week!) that it is cheaper to hire someone to take all the cases instead of hiring barristers for each case.
No, actually they're hiring to replace the previous Head of Legal Affairs, Jim Callahan, who's leaving to go to Etihad. And (more generally) a Head of Legal Affairs does a different job to a barrister.