I was watching Michael Portillo’s Great American Railroad Journeys there recently as he travelled from Athens to Thessaloniki (cc @RTE) and I was hit by a great longing to go to Greece.
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The McCanns ruined holiday pints for everyone
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That’s not in America
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And, as the auld fella sagely pointed out, nobody in Bilboa pronounces it “Thessalon-iki” either.
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And the Cabinet weren’t bothered to discuss it yesterday.
Ooft
You can forget about the midwest now
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Only Mick O’Leary can save Shannon now
Tourism is a real life line for likes of Kerry and Clare and Galway but not to same extent. Approx 2 million US tourists visited Ireland every year and this segment of transatlantic tourism was growing in recent years with opening of new routes like Charlotte, Atlanta, Philadelphia in conjunction with existing ones like New York, Chicago, Boston and Orlando. American tourists also spend big when they do arrive here. I’m sure Dublin will still see some US visitors but the sound of hooves and jaunting cars in Killarney and tour buses pulling up at Cliffs of Moher might not be as frequent now.
Aer Lingus are an absolute joke anyway. They are like a 1950s airline.
Amazing the EU are up in arms about this when they turn a blind eye as to what is happening in Palestine.
A flight between two EU countries forcibly diverted by another state is exactly what I’d expect the EU to be up in arms about.
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Getting excited about a diverted flight but not interested in children being murdered.
Strange priorities.
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This thing was number one on the news tonight, with all sorts of very grave and serious language being used and Mickey Martin weighing in. A handy distraction maybe.
Your man in Belarus was fair done there. And I hate seeing a man done
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Could have been worse. They could have shot the plane down.
I heard he refused to buy the overpriced pringles. That’s what got him in bother
The eastern European hellholes are something else. If they are willing to scramble a fighter, they are willing to blow them out of the sky, you’d want your head examined to fly in their airspace
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