The Celtic Tiger economic boom is all very well but this is goin’ beyond th’ Beyonds. Begob the great labour leader James Connolly would rise from the grave into which a British firing squad laid him in 1916 (and wasn’t yer man, already all shot all to Hell in combat & unable to stand for the grand occasion, propped up in a chair ~ his wounds from the Battle all bleeding & bare :) and mount the Barricades in Another fight for the Red COUGH COUGH nowait, for the Green again. :>

For brass and cold-heartedness, you can tip your cap to the managers of Aer Lingus, Ireland’s popular air carrier. Looking to drive away workers, the airline developed a series of discomforts and insults to make working there so unpopular people would leave on their own.

So much for Irish charm.

We’ve always imagined that the “bosses” of the world did such things when, usually, they don’t at all; but the Aer Lingus gang put their plan into black and white — and got caught.

…The airline industry everywhere is going through tough times but it’s hard to imagine anyone being quite so cynical (and getting quite so caught at it) as those at Aer Lingus.

Quite so cynical, Yes, it is. Quite so Caught at it ~ well, yes ~ anywhere but Ireland. :)

Read the whole column. // Incidentally, this Hartford Courant humor-&-opinion writer made my professional life miserable three years ago next month, when he playfully decided, and widely Publicized, that he would run for Governor of CT as a Joke, pursuant to an idiotic Federal court decision ~ subsequently reversed ~ which temporarily Destroyed our entire Nominating process. Of course his hilarious & heavily-covered Escapade brought every other Moonbat-who-wanted-to-be-Governor out of the cave and damn near Killed my former Office (CT SOTS Elections). /// But now, in consideration of this fine piece of Opinion Journalism: Denis Horgan, ego te absolvo.