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19th Jun 2015

Pic: People share amazing stories about how Aer Lingus helped Irish families in tragic circumstances

Powerful and heartwarming stuff

Conor Heneghan

Powerful and heartwarming stuff.

As we’ve shown yet again this week, Irish people are really good at pulling together after a tragic event, whether it’s at a local level or on a larger scale like the terrible events in Berkeley earlier this week.

It turns out that such empathy and generosity of spirit doesn’t just extend to the people themselves, but also to our national airline Aer Lingus, who have endeavoured to provide help to those who need it most in deeply tragic situations.

On hearing of Aer Lingus’ gesture to the families affected by the Berkeley tragedy this week, one Aer Lingus customer was inspired to write them a moving thank you post to their Facebook page.

Hi Aer Lingus, I hear this morning of your compassion, care, sympathy and utmost professionalism, yet again. You’ve been…

Posted by Jonathan Wallace on Thursday, 18 June 2015

Not only was it a moving and emotional read, it inspired dozens upons dozens of others to share their stories of Aer Lingus’ compassion to their customers in difficult circumstances.

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Honestly, it will warm your heart and move you to tears at the same time to read some of the responses below and you can read all of them here; they’re pretty amazing.

Fair play Aer Lingus.

Hat-tip to the girls at Her.ie for this one

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