I wonder if Ops have been able to contact our dear Chief Pilot yet?? Rumour has it that he was uncontactable for 3 days at the time of the Bristol uncontained engine failure. Although to be fair to him it did happen on a friday evening of a Bank Holiday weekend.
Aer Lingus are going to want to distance themselves as much as possible from this incident. This could well be the final nail as mave292 suggested.