{"id":118152,"date":"2025-10-12T22:41:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T22:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/118152\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T22:41:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T22:41:18","slug":"pressure-mounts-on-transport-minister-to-back-or-sack-embattled-daa-chief-kenny-jacobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/118152\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressure mounts on Transport Minister to back or sack embattled DAA chief Kenny Jacobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The last thing Fianna F\u00e1il needs right now is a new crisis\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DAA chief Kenny Jacobs. Photo: Conor McCabe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/a81760e5-107a-4b50-aad5-4e1a58da2f62.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">DAA chief Kenny Jacobs. Photo: Conor McCabe<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Embattled DAA boss Kenny Jacobs wants to remain in his role, but would demand that Transport Minister Darragh O\u2019Brien backs him publicly and makes sweeping board changes at the airport authority \u2013 including the ousting of chair Basil Geoghegan, according to well-informed sources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Following a high-profile falling-out between Jacobs and the board   the minister has now been left with a dilemma over whether he\u2019ll sign off on a \u20ac1m exit payout for Jacobs \u2013 which is controversial in itself \u2013 and risk leaving Dublin airport without a boss through the busy Christmas season and amid growing threats to European air travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The last thing Fianna F\u00e1il needs right now is a new crisis DAA chief Kenny Jacobs. Photo: Conor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,38997,13458,26,18,33201,4771,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-118152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-daa","10":"tag-darragh-obrien","11":"tag-dublin-airport","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-fearghal-oconnor","14":"tag-fianna-fail","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}