“All of this revenue came with extraordinary conflicts of interest,” says Crew, a non-partisan and non-profit organisation. He made another $58 million from Turnberry and Aberdeen in Scotland. Photograph: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Imagesĭonald Trump made almost $25 million from Doonbeg golf resort in the four years he was American president, according to an analysis by Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington (Crew). Has Michael O’Leary finally met his match? How much did Trump make out of Doonbeg while president?ĭonald Trump has profited handsomely from his Irish and Scottish golf courses. Clearly the student learned well from the master. The line was itself Ryanair-esque, which is no surprise given that Jacobs spent six years as the airline’s chief marketing officer. The “county fair” put-down was first used by chief executive Kenny Jacobs during an interview with Pat Kenny on Newstalk, and the DAA press office pounced on it for a subsequent news release. “We are running the fifth largest transatlantic hub in Europe, not a county fair,” it said, grabbing all the media headlines. In response, DAA pointed out that car parking requires infrastructure, and therefore planning permission. The semi-State owns lots of land in the area, Ryanair claimed, “which could be opened as a temporary car park at very short notice”. In typically bombastic fashion, the airline insisted there was an easy solution to the shortage of car parking spaces at Dublin Airport this summer. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty ImagesĭAA has finally won a battle in its long-running war of words with Ryanair. Kenny Jacobs of DAA learned a lot from his time working for Ryanair. DAA takes up the Ryanair communications playbook However Hydro is not part of any live tender process, “and the firm has never been invited to tender as part of a tendering process. Irish Distillers tells me that it did indeed meet with Hydro last November, a meeting that was facilitated by a third party. We had a great time loved the business and applaud their environmental ambitions.” We turned up with former Welsh rugby captain Dai Pickering and Brigadier Rick Libbey, former head of the British army in Wales. Of his contacts with Irish Distillers, Harri tells me: “We are in talks and we are confident we can deploy state-of-the-art technology that will allow them to make more whiskey and meet the highest environmental standards on wastewater. You can see why that might be of interest to distillers, who use up to six litres of water per bottle of whiskey. After leaving 10 Downing Street last September, Guto Harri joined the board of Hydro Industries, a water technology company with offices in Swansea, London and the Middle East.Īccording to its website, Hydro designs bespoke water systems, “guided by proprietary software”. Boris Johnson’s former director of communications has visited Ireland for a meeting with Irish Distillers.
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