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MANAGEMENT at Aer Lingus unveiled it as its “Greenfield” scheme, implying by the name that a new start was to be made. But unions, which were presented with the latest survival plan only on October 7, have dubbed it “the Aer Lingus Snake” amid fears that the former Irish national airline is uprooting by stealth in moves already in motion to set up new bases in the US and UK, which could open the door to wholesale outsourcing of offshore staff.

A REPORT into the €10 Air Travel Tax (ATT) has found that it will result in hundreds of millions of lost revenue for the Government and thousands of job losses.

AER Lingus could be winging its way to the rescue by keeping its Shannon-New York service flying through the winter and then helping to plug the east-bound gap, if Ryanair carries out its threat of a 75% reduction in flights from April. But, there is going to be a price to pay at Shannon.

EDITORIAL We have long been aware that priests have committed horrendous acts of sexual abuse against children but it has now been confirmed by the Commission of Investigation Report into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin that some of the most senior figures in the Irish Catholic Church hierarchy, over a 30-year period, were aware of it and stood idly by.

All the Clare credit unions have linked up with St Vincent de Paul to open a Clare Relief Fund, whereby people across the county can lodge money that will go directly to those affected by the floods in Clare.

FUNDING worth €150,000 has been allocated to help develop a new cystic fibrosis (CF) centre in the Mid-West, according to Clare TD Timmy Dooley.

THE head of transport in the European Union described Clare’s infrastructure as “at best, patchy” and said that this is causing businesses in the county to miss opportunities.

HUNDREDS of residents in Ennis and South-East Clare are living in fear of further flooding this weekend after the Clare Crisis Management Centre issued a severe flood-risk warning to all parts of the county.Despite the onset of one-in-100-year flooding in Clare last week, the multi-agency flood relief team has expressed fears of further flooding over the coming days.