Donie was thinking of the little matter of the e220 million with which Fianna Fail saddled the airport and the problem of Cork carrying such an amount of debt while trying to run a successful business at the same time.

But, it seems, Dempsey only wanted details of Cork Airport’s business plan which sets out their strategy for development over the next 15 years. 

Dempsey, of course, intended (as is his right) to reveal the details to the Dublin Airport Authority, the very body against which Cork will be competing when it becomes independent of the DAA.

So, did Joe spill the beans?

YOU’RE NICKED!

Speaking of airlines, last week the British advertising watchdog came down like a ton of bricks on Ryanair following a complaint from the travel website, lastminute.com, over a Ryanair advertising campaign headlined ‘robbed by last minute.com?’

It showed a cartoon of a burglar with ‘online’ printed on his bag of swag.  The ad claimed that booking Ryanair tickets through an online agent was a ‘rip-off’. 

By the time Michael O’Leary pulled the ad it had run across the British national press with the result that in many minds the mud stuck.

So many complaints have been upheld against Ryanair’s advertisement strategy that moves are afoot in Britain to report the company to the Office of Fair Trading.

MANNA FROM JIM

The 5,000 poets on Wellington Road are in for a lifeline.

 Cllr Jim Corr (remember him?), chairman of the City Council Arts Committee, has e358,000 in his back pocket that he’s just dying to distribute to the poets, painters, actors and musicians starving in their draughty garrets. 

Don’t rush!  Form a queue, for Jim’s sake!  There’s enough for everyone!

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