David Dilger appointed Chairman of DAA

The Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) today welcomed the decision by the Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey to appoint David Dilger as Chairman of the company. Gary McGann the previous Chairman of the DAA resigned in March.

"David Dilger is a business leader of the highest calibre", said DAA Chief Executive Declan Collier in welcoming Mr. Dilger to the position.

Ryanair condemned the decision of the government "to replace one failed (Anglo Irish) bank director, Gary McGann as Chairman of the DAA airport monopoly, with another failed bank director, David Dilger who has been a Director of Bank of Ireland PLC since 2003." The airline went on to say that the appointment was totally inappropriate and "confirms that the "golden circle" of failed bank directors is alive and well and still being appointed to Boards of semi state companies by this clueless government."

Ryanair's Chief Executive Michael O'Leary said that “The fact that Mr Dilger was a participant in the near bankrupting of Bank of Ireland necessitating its bail out by the Government makes him one of the golden circle of “Banksters” who should be unfit to be Chairman of a semi-state company, even one as badly run as the DAA airport monopoly.