Noel Dempsey, clearly has had coaching from Michael Martin on how to push blame onto nameless civil servants, in an attempt to explain how on his second day in the transport portfolio he was not informed of the news of the Aer Lingus decision to stop flights to London from Shannon. Hopefully someone will raise that minor detail of ‘ministerial responsibility’ at an extended question time in the Dail at 4.15 today (Thursday). Read more here.

16.45 - RTE report on calls for Dempseys resignation.