When Sean Doyle was growing up in Youghal, his father would tell him stories of his days as an immigration officer at Cork Airport. Doyle’s father worked at the airport when it was first opened by then-taoiseach Sean Lemass and then-transport minister Erskine Childers in 1961. He was also there when the Cork operations of Aer Lingus were run by one Tony Ryan, who would later establish Ryanair. Yet despite aviation looming large in his early years, Doyle was not really considering a career in the industry. Instead, he started out at a local print and design company called CB…

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