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...picked up just over 19% of Aer Lingus, but both the Irish government and Aer Lingus' board have rebuffed your overtures. And last week, opponents of a tie-up bought shares in Aer Lingus to block the deal. Are you still confident of landing the airline? As an Irishman, I am always optimistic but never ever confident. It is a great deal for Aer Lingus' passengers, who will enjoy a 10% reduction in short-haul fares, and an even better deal for Aer Lingus employees, who stand to make on average 360,000 each. A 27% premium over the flotation...
What prompted a Welsh Irishman's interest in reviving the music culture of New Orleans...
...think I'll boss them, employers think I'll try and run the place, strangers think I'll look down on them - so they get the boot in first. "It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him," wrote Irishman George Bernard Shaw in the preface to Pygmalion, the play that became My Fair Lady. In England, the way you say "oh" or "oo" can make you one of the gang - or the designated buffoon. We're at King Street College in west London, where Hughes...
...Irishman “could have played Mephistopheles” while another has “a devilish appearance...
...Baer, one of the state?s veteran political observers, noted Friday, Pennsylvania actually has a rich tradition of politicians and their handlers putting their foot in their mouths during a crucial moment of a political campaign. In 1990 gubernatorial challenger Barbara Hafer called incumbent Bob Casey ?A redneck Irishman,? propelling him to a second term, and Dick Thornburgh?s aide once called his boss ?The salvation of this sorry-ass state,? pretty much assuring that Harris Wofford would become the state's next U.S. senator in 1991. So it seems that, thanks to Seif's gaffe, both Swann and Scranton...