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...very best person for the job." Walsh's main accomplishment was rescuing Aer Lingus from bankruptcy after taking over the controls in late 2001. Now "it's the only European flag carrier making money on short-haul" regional flights, points out Joe Gill, research director at Goodbody Stockbrokers in Dublin. Walsh clipped Aer Lingus' staff numbers by about a third and trimmed costs, part of a "culture to pare everything down to the bone," says Gill. But the ex-pilot failed to push through further job cuts before his departure in January. And rising fuel costs and chronic staff troubles...
...Irish historian Eamon Phoenix calls its "greatest crisis since the Irish Civil War in 1922." Party leaders were already under pressure to distance themselves from the I.R.A. after a $50 million robbery at a Belfast bank in December, which the British and Irish governments blamed on the terrorist organization. Dublin, which usually plays "good cop" to London's "bad cop" in negotiations with Sinn Fein, reacted with fury. The bank raid also raised questions about republican intentions toward the peace process, which, though stalled, is still supported by Sinn Fein and the I.R.A. "People don't understand why they...
Clean Cash When Irish police tackled a possible I.R.A. money laundering operation last week, they had no idea that their suspects had been taking things so literally. But the raids in Cork and Dublin yielded dirty money - millions of British pounds stashed in compost bins - and wads of euros stuffed into a box of detergent. Authorities suspect that the recovered cash may be connected to the theft of $50 million from a Belfast bank in December - a robbery that officials blamed on the I.R.A., and that helped to kill the latest round of peace talks. $95,000 of that stolen...
...locals. In the prewar years, Dubrovnik was known to the European cognoscenti as a low-cost alternative to the ritzy Riviera. Now its charms are fast becoming an open secret. Flights arrive almost daily from Madrid, Paris, Rome and Vienna, together with budget services from Bratislava, London Gatwick and Dublin. In all, more than 320,000 foreigners holidayed in Dubrovnik (pop. 37,000) last year, up from 250,000 in 2002. "Dubrovnik is a jewel," says Ed Serotta, a Vienna-based historian and frequent visitor. He recommends a stroll on the 11/4-mile medieval wall encircling the city; on one side...
...York Times recently reported that Irish immigrants to the U.S. who had decided to return home were discovering that their dollar savings didn't go far. The cash that you get from selling a house in Woodlawn in the Bronx won't buy you much of anything in boomtown Dublin, where the euro rules...