The Front Pages
Today’s Irish Times front page features the headline ‘Aer Lingus strike vote could cause travel disruption’, as the paper suggests the airline’s cabin crew are to ballot over the implementation of the company’s €97 million cost-saving plan.
The trade union Impact, which represents cabin crews at Aer Lingus, said yesterday that it is to ballot members for industrial action over the cost-containment plan. Aer Lingus has responded by saying that it does not anticipate any disruption caused from any proposed industrial action.
The Irish Independent on the other hand, runs with their main story ’11,000 new houses built as 300,000 still lie empty’. According to a new study from NUI Maynooth, 300,000 vacant houses are currently sitting 620 ghost estates, with 120,000 existing houses unlikely to ever be sold.
New figures also show that developers started work on nearly 11,000 homes over the past 15 months. The Independent to suggest that Environment Minister John Gormley is ‘powerless’ the put a stop to the building splurge, as he could face legal consequences if he imposes a suspension on new housing construction.
