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Let The Battle Commence: Pictured at the Battle of the Books launch at County Hall, Swords on Thursday last, are Emma O'Shaughnessy and Clodagh Carroll (both from St Colmcille's GNS, Swords), Lola Coady and Karl Johnston (both from St Patrick's SNS, Skerries) and Patrick Mitchell from St. Mary's National School, Garristown. See story on page 9
3rd February 2015 • Volume 22, Issue 03 • Leader House, North Street, Swords, Co. Dublin. • Tel: 8•400•200 • info@northcountyleader.ie
North County Says
With the sale of Aer Lingus dominating the national airwaves in the past week, we asked some prominent local politicians and others for their opinions on how the sale of Aer Lingus will affect the North County. It is clear that there is a growing level of resistance to the Government selling it’s 25 per cent share in the company. Local TDs, including Labour’s Brendan Ryan and Fine Gael’s Alan Farrell, view the sale of the Government’s share as a red line issue, and one that may well have negative implications at the doorsteps, come general election time. The clear consensus is that this is not a deal which finds favour with people in the North County, with all of the respondents having grave reservations about the future of employees at the company. Aer Lingus retiree, Flan Clune, who retired in 2002, was very definite that any sale of Aer Lingus would have a very detrimental effect on the North County, in terms of the knock-on to the local economy, should job losses occur, which he believes will be the case. See full report on pages 6 & 7
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