Considering the charlatans that fed off the company at the start it's not surprising that the Irish management should want to ditch the UK connection, and move toward another solution for the AOC.
What's happened to the crews isn't nice, but it's an indication of where things are moving towards.
Lets face it, if the management had said you can keep your jobs but be Ireland based, there would have been 101 reasons why this could'nt happen, exactly as there was when they first considered an IAA AOC, followed by talks of personal financial compensation from an already overstretched budget.
Provided the pilots don't get stitched up on their pay, good luck to the rest of the company, lets hope it continues for the sake of the rest of the good people left working there, and if only to prove the vultures that feed of this site wrong.