Oisín Coghlan

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242 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 19 Jul

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Brendan O'Connor · The Newspaper Panel · 19 Jul 2026 podcast

So I'm not so sure about how this is being framed.

But I think the Minister for Justice is kind of piggybacking on that public sense that lawyers have had an awful lot to potentially affect the most vulnerable here, which I think there's a real risk of that.

Well, that it's kind of an arbitrary profit criteria that's at play here rather than actually financial difficulties that obviously Aer Lingus has been through in the past.

So that IAG is kind of demanding that they make between a 12% and a 15% profit margin.

And they're falling just underneath that at 11.2.

And that for that reason is that they're being potentially declined investment are being decreased.

are being urged to cut jobs to make that margin.

So it's not to be profitable.

It's to be particularly profitable, which seems a bit of an arbitrary threshold for deciding jobs.

I will say, of course, in the same week, the government has passed legislation to raise the passenger cap in Dublin Airport with no reference to the climate impacts of that and specifically in the law saying the climate law doesn't apply to this.

So avoiding any scrutiny of the impacts of increasing aviation.

This is another one where we may have mixed emotions in that I think probably almost everyone in the country has enjoyed the last couple of weeks.

It has been particularly lovely in Ireland.

But obviously, we're at the gentle end of what that heatwave has been like across Europe.

I was checking these numbers and they're at, they are,

they are assessing that somewhere between 17,000 and 25,000 additional deaths happened in Europe over the last two months because of the extreme heat.

And we were talking about road deaths earlier.

That compares to like less than 2,000 road deaths in the same period on an average year.

So we're seeing multiples of people dying on the roads being killed because of accelerating climate breakdown.

So we can't unfortunately avoid that, even if for us here in Ireland at the moment, it's a particularly lovely spell of weather.

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