Regarding people being accepted without a true passion to fly and talking bs when asked in the interview 'why you want to be a pilot' is incredibly frustrating! Like myself, I'm sure all of you grew up with your eyes turned skyward and we should be the ones getting into airline programmes!
It's unfortunate but I guess your always going to get those people who never really had any motivation at school and suddenly want to become a pilot after seeing an advert on fb. We have to be positive though and show aer lingus that we will be better pilots!