Racedo, you're getting a little confused. Flybe is a heavily loss making regional airline with little brand recognition in Ireland. Aer Lingus is a heavily profitable airline with a strong balance sheet and enormous brand awareness. The losses of years ago are irrelevant as the business is now very different
Brand awareness in Ireland only as outside of that it pretty much doesn't exist.
Flybe are 50% family owned with IAG holding a minority shareholding
Claiming you want to ensure competition but then starting to say well it must have brand recognition in Ireland is trying to impose new hurdles.
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To suggest that Flybe can provide the same level of competition to ryanair in the Irish market is a fallacy. And you and your boss know this. Which is fine for you as your only remit is to serve the shareholders of your company, who will benefit enormously from removing AL from the Irish market. No need to be shy about admitting this as you're only doing your job by carrying out your fiduciary duties.
As I live in Surrey and don't work for Ryanair then will ignore the rest of the personal dig because your debating points now appear to consist of Flybe is not an Irish Airline.