I believe that second e-mail you are all talking about is in response to speculative applications that were sent to aer lingus, they keep these on file for a period of six months and it seems this e-mail is an automated response to that.
My guess is that you can ignore it if you've applied for the direct entry scheme in the past few days as it's exactly the same competition.
Last edited by Yahweh; 19th Jun 2013 at 20:35.