Thousands of job losses at Collinstown
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Wednesday February 14, 2007 12:55
by John McDermott - removefiannafail
All the kings horses and all the kings men..
Fianna Fail threatened with voting meltdown catastrophy in north county Dublin.
Only one bidder turned up for the auction of dismantled aircraft fuselages at Collinstown yesterday.
A Mr Michael OLeary (alias Humpty Dumpty) bought the lot for a knockdown price of 99 cents.
Thousands of angry jobless ex-employees of the now defunct airline "Aer Lingus"crammed the voting booths in North Dublin, at the general election to vent their anger .Bart Ahern and Martin Cullen said that with the benefit of "20-20 hindsight vision" they had botched it big time. "We spent years nurturing those votes, and voters" Bart said "It all went terribly wrong, we should never have part privatized the company-that is to say until after the election""