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TICKETS FOR TOMORROW’S All-Ireland Hurling Final tomorrow between Cork and Clare are said to be like gold dust.
Fans from all around the Rebel county and the Banner are scouring social media, ringing up relatives and entering raffles for a chance to get a ticket to the much-anticipated final.
For fans who have not been successful (yet), there will be televised coverage of the clash on RTÉ One and also, for the first time in history, on the BBC.
But, that being said, today we want to know… Did you manage to nab tickets to tomorrow’s All-Ireland Hurling Final?
Poll Results:
No (2277)
I didn't bother trying (2103)
No interest/No opinion (1966)
Yes (1524)
No, but I'm still trying (817)
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@Shaun Gallagher: Did anyone ever find those children who went missing, whilst under govt care? Why doesn’t the journal investigate some as serious and horrendous as this? Nobody takes you serious as a”news site”. None of you are considered to be real “journalists”. Seriously, do a journal investigates piece on young kids going missing whilst in govt care!!!!
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@Stephen Kelly: all soundbites as usual. “Get back to the table”…… They’ve been at the table for nearly 2 years. Now things have escalated. Doesn’t look like the pilots are going to blink so Aerlingus have made a decision to play hard ball and are losing money and damaging their own reputation to keep the workers down. If only management would publish their own pay increases like they published the pilots remuneration. That would be some reading.
Yes, they should only strike between 1am and 2am, so it has as little affect as possible, that’s the way to have your demands met. Bit like why nurses are vastly underpaid, the odd time they do try to fight for what they should be paid they still make sure everybody is looked after so they get naff all.
I support the pilots. Not sure what gives Simon the impression that he can decide for the nation how they feel about this. Mental health services for children are non existent. The children that Simon promised would have surgery for scoliosis are still waiting. Children are being let down by this government and it’s a very cheap shot from Simon to use them as pawns on this issue.
He is not too worried about the children he promised an operation to for scoliosis within four months in 2017and they are still waiting for it. Many of them are much worse now and have gone downhill since.
Has anyone ever wondered why politicians never go on strike? Think about that for a minute and then decide if they should be allowed criticise others for fighting for their conditions. Pilots are well paid but if they didn’t fight for it they’d end up like nurses, underpaid. I do however think that people should stop clapping when they land the plane, that’s what we do for nurses instead of paying them more, it’s not fair that pilots get more pay and claps.
Children in this country are let down by your Government everyday Taoiseach. But sure blame the pilots, absolutely laughable. Get your own house in order.
No surprise here from Fine Gael – completely anti worker and against collective bargaining.
Aer Lingus pilots have gone through the negotiations for 2 years so it’s clear where the fault lies here. Looking for pay to match inflation is something every worker deserves, especially as we’ve seen that corporate greed is a massive factor in inflation
Children’l from 20 years ago have been let down by Simon and his buddies. Have all emigrated and left this country cause can’t afford to live. And they are still doing it today to today’s children
@John D Doe: Greedy pilots? Would you be happy in your job with no pay rise in 5 years all the while inflation is reducing your wage slip. I’m guessing you wouldn’t be but of course you get outraged when others stand up for what they feel they are entitled to while you cry
@John D Doe: they haven’t had a pay increase since 2019. Inflation since then sits at over 21%. The average Irish workers wages since 2019 in figures released by CSO last month has increased by 24%. So tell me, how are they greedy?
@John D Doe: The pilots took a pay cut when everyone was required to help out the economy messed up by or Govt. Most employees got the cuts reinstated. That is their entitlement. The limits haven’t got theirs back. I have no skin in the game, but I am appalled by the abuse Mark Tighe gets on RTE when he puts the pilots case across.
@John D Doe: You’re a disgrace to your parents. I’d say they’re seriously embarrassed by you and your unintelligently informed direction in your sad life.
Hi. Is it possible to do a fact check on the Air Lingus pilots claim that inflation has gone up by 24.8% since 2019 and that’s why they’re looking for such an enormous increase in their pay.
Lots of people here trying to distract from the point. A pilots job not much more difficult than a person driving articulated truck and some already earning well over 200 K a year . Tell me ..a pensioner..how that kind of wage deserves a 25% wage increase. Blackmail . Nothing less
@Maurice Dinan: A pilot’s job is a lot more difficult than driving a truck. 99.9% of the time ticking along on autopilot with almost nothing to do for hours on end but be constantly ready to respond in a split second to any emergency and try to keep everyone alive in a broken aircraft several kilometres up.
Then there’s the radiation hazard associated with the job because most of the time is spent in the upper atmosphere.
I would not do it for 200k.
The Taoiseach is a jackeen disgrace!
Whinging about something that never happened – “using children as pawns”. Such absolute hysterics! Next he’ll be claiming that all employees in a Trade Union are using Trade Unions “as human shields” fer gawwd sake!
It is also an absolute disgrace that Aer Lingus was ever let go from National and indigenous ownership. New owners have done nothing but defame, from the very start, the Irish people, the Irish Nation, the Irish culture and more importantly the established **class** of a prestigious, high-end, and proud Irish brand that always engaged respectfully with worker’s unions and *loyal*, consistently hardworking, employees – as is our [dissident, worker-centric and pro-TU] culture.
There should have been caveats written into that sales contract prohibiting them from engaging in behaviours, activities or policies that are anti-Trade Union and (therefore) defamatory of or to the Irish people, and/or the Irish Nation.
Their carry on is a disgrace!
And more importantly, their carry on is indicative of a corporate culture mentality of pro-colonialist WASP supremacy. They have essentially placed British pilots in ethnic superiority to indigenous Irish pilots, they have platformed and condoned pro-colonialist supremacy and relegated Irish pilots to an inferior employee position and designation via pay disparity.
Basically, British owners have practiced and endorsed a policy of ethnic supremacy through pay apartheid.
Denigrating Irish as “less than”. “Less worthy” of pay parity.
While the actually inferiorly educated British, and their post-Brexit, “can’t reverse”, inferiorly licenced, HGV truck drivers are mowing down Irish cyclists and pedestrians the length and breadth of Ireland!!
That said, these pilots should be Striking over being forced to still fly lethal Boeing planes, fer jaysus sakes lads!!
Or at least incorporating the phasing-out of Boeing useage, as part of their demands (such as: “we’ll drop to 21% if all planes are swopped to Airbus before Christmas, and if Aer Lingus provides alternative guaranteed and recession-safe perks. Like a company gym and pool or free local gym membership, subsidised pet insurance, or free company-funded human health insurance for whole family. Or company housing and/or subsidised housing or, better yet, a company Credit Union that can back&support mortgages for all employees”).
Where are the European and International Regulators on serious Boeing problems? EASA, IAA etc?
Obviously the American’s can’t be trusted.
Obviously the yankee FAA can’t be trusted.
American consumers have been switching their flights to Airbus flights…..FOR MONTHS NOW!!
How many investigative journalistic reports, and documentaries, do Irish (EU+Australia/NZ) pilots actually need before they start *refusing* to fly ALL Boeings?
From European National Broadcasters to Netflix to Al Jazeera – I have personally gone from cautious confidence (reliant upon engineering to the letter of the law, and absolute transparency with safety obligation) in the 20th Century feat of engineering to bypassing any development of a ‘fear of flying’ phobia, directly to: “Nope. Ferry.”
(…and I’ll take yer horse with me, for a few bars of Kerrygold! ;-P )
Why has nobody asked the question though – how have half the country not already shifted their holiday plan to Ferry (France/Spain) and Trains over flying (any airline) with Boeing?
I support all workers who are in a Trade Union.
There is nothing in this life more righteous.
And who are exercising their Rights through their Trade Union.
But to really get me to rally behind these pilots – striking at the very last minute in the thick of sunmer season – they had better be striking the match of an International Pilot Boycott of Boeing.
[side note: it is the nurses, junior doctors, and later also Consultants, who should be implementing intensive "Work-To-Rule" actions during the non-flu season. Let's see how far that gets the HSE's supposedly "fully staffed hospitals"!]
Your a pathetic minister using emotional language like that. Stop your condensing rubbish and call an election. You should keep out of issues you know nothing about.
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