Seamus Brennan
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Me and everyone else here would like to pass on their sympathies to the Brennan family on the death of Seamus Brennan.
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A young man by today’s standards. To the extent that FF has any residual “Left” tradition (and not in Bertie’s sense of being Ireland’s last socialist), Brennan was part it. I don’t think he was ever that taken with the PD wing and their allies in FF (e.g. McCreevy).
P, very true. Seamus Brennan was underestimated by a lot of people but his contribution to Irish life, particularly for the Ryanair generation, is unquantifiable. Ar dheis De go raibh a h-anam.
Seamus was a rara avis in a flock of ostriches. A man with vision.
He had ability and integrity and was not afraid to take on the beards and sandals in his pursuit of creating an efficient Transport system.
One has only to contrast his vision; energy and skills with the likes of Martin Cullen and see the appalling mess that he and Mary O’Rourke made.
But, true to type - and in order not to upset comrade Halpenny - Bertie played Judas - and Seamus was removed - along with Charlie McCreevy, another target of Begg, O’Connor and the other bloated, overpaid freaks in the union movement.
But, Seamus, you have had the last laugh. Ahern has been booted out, in disgrace, like Haughey, Lawlor & Burke before him.
You are seeing the economy in rag order because of Ahern’s profligacy; his obtuse attitude to Willie Walsh, whom you, Seamus, admired and supported, in his successful efforts to make Aer Lingus an efficient company along the lines of Ryanair, a beacon of efficient management in these present, bleak days.
You will have the satisfaction of knowing that Ahern, the person who dishonoured you so disgracefully, is a busted flush, a charlatan who will never realise his ambition to take a place at the top table of the EU.
RIP to a man of great intellect. He opened up the aviation sector to competition and as a consequence helped herald lower fares for the consumer. It is sad that his plans to do the same for public-transport were not taken on board, and that he should leave us at such a relatively young age for our times.