{"id":1019,"date":"2023-05-16T18:38:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T17:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2023-05-16T19:06:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T18:06:14","slug":"senior-manager-in-irish-rail-on-the-ukranian-frontline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2023\/05\/16\/senior-manager-in-irish-rail-on-the-ukranian-frontline\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Manager in Irish Rail in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Every so often, something so bizarre comes along that even I take a deep breath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So it was when I read in the Irish Independent<\/a> that Irish Rail’s pugnacious PR manager, Barry Kenny, is currently working as a volunteer preparing food for soldiers on the Ukrainian frontline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here we have a senior manager in an Irish State Owned Enterprise actively assisting in a war effort against a nuclear power. Someone needs to explain to Barry that Ireland is a neutral State and what that means, in simple English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One wonders how many Irish Rail employees are volunteering in Syria or Yemen against USA initiated\/backed aggression or is State aggression OK if Uncle Sam carries it out?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the sake of argument, if the war between Russia\/Ukraine were to escalate from a proxy war with the West into an actual hot war, how would it look that a senior manager in an Irish State Owned Enterprise was actively assisting in a war effort against a nuclear power?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us not forget that during World War 2, when the Free State was neutral, the creamery at Campile in Co. Wexford was bombed by the Nazis<\/a>, allegedly a “mistake”, however, in all reality, an attack on a food supply for Britain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every so often, something so bizarre comes along that even I take a deep breath. So it was when I read in the Irish Independent that Irish Rail’s pugnacious PR manager, Barry Kenny, is currently working as a volunteer preparing food for soldiers on the Ukrainian frontline. Here we have a senior manager in an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}