A week really can be a long time

In fact, it lasted 10 days. That period in mid February epitomised the Irish attitude to our predicament. As we teetered on the edge of absolute economic disaster our national debates took on an even greater air of unreality.
Dublin City Council raised a storm of protest over reducing the speed limit in the city centre to 30km/hour. Since the country is gradually grinding to a halt anyway, why not make it official?

Hanger Number 6
Then there was the story of the 300 jobs. Now you see them and now you don’t. Ryanair wanted Hanger Number 6 to carry out aircraft maintenance. The Dublin Airport Authority, like Mae West, suggested that Michael 'Leary should 'come up and see them sometime'. But Michael doesn’t like the DAA and he would only talk to the Government. The Tánaiste wouldn’t talk to Michael O'Leary, who, in turn, wouldn’t talk to the Dublin Airport Authority, who, in turn, didn’t really want to talk to the IDA because the IDA might ask that Hanger Number 6 (which the DAA had leased to Aer Lingus) be taken back and leased to Ryanair instead. Are you still following this story? Anyway, it appeared that Aer Lingus didn’t really need Hanger Number 6. A smaller hanger might have sufficed but since it was Ryanair that wanted it - 'No way, José'.