Dispatch - give the caustic negativity a break, and just once, give the guys in the DAA the benefit of the doubt on Air India.
Nobody expected the battle to get an indian carrier to transit through Dublin to be an easy battle, but nothing ventured, nothing gained. Remember that many years ago a similar entrepreneurial approach to Aeroflot brought SU to Ireland for many years, and a little bit of Ireland to Moscow for the past twenty years or so.
I see from another thread that the DAA operate the duty free in the just opened Delhi airport terminal 3, so somebody in the DAA is doing something right in India, and a track record of working successfully with the Indians is established.