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The scene where a mans body which has been found in the Phoenix Park in Dublin. (Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
#UK: A further 19 hospitals face investigation in relation to their links to Jimmy Savile and allegations of sexual abuse.
#UK: Police have received thousands of phone calls after the Madeleine McCann appeal.
#THAILAND: Thai protesters stormed the army headquarters and ruling party offices.
Are women hard-wired to be bitches? The New Statesman takes a look at this issue and proclaims that one is not born a bitch, one becomes one.
Keith Urban stuck in the middle with Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj, who reportedly were not the best of friends on “American Idol”. (PA Image)
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I vote put O Leary in charge of ESB
HSE
The bloody country.
Yes esb, no hse. Healthcare relies on people who care about people. Who don’t have a profit motive. And you will never satisfy demand since we don’t live long enough no matter what. Whereas electrici is a commodity good. And, I don’t think Michael o Leary would run a 120,000 person 14b euro business for 200k a year. Esb pays a lot more, for less. Strike? Get a grip lads.
He’s been doing this for years.
Harangued me out of my seat using the broadcast PA a few years ago for being the last to board. Then he got on the plane with TWO PIECES OF CARRY ON LUGGAGE.
Ah he probably took the €50 excess baggage charge out of one pocket and put it in the other, before he boarded.
I like Ryanair. It gets me there at budget prices.
If I want frills I can pay more and travel with another airline.
That option is also available to the perennial whingers.
Apart from Emirates, there isn’t any frills airlines in Ireland, and its even pushing it with Emirates
Lufthansa? Swiss Air? B.A.? Turkish Airlines? SAS?
There’s plenty of proper airlines servicing Dublin.
Suarez and Sturridge?
Good on ya Michael.
Publicity stunt, he couldnt give less of a shit about customers. Bet he was there weighing bags too trying to scam a few more euro out of people.
Good to know you know nothing about him Rob, he has being doing this years upon years, he even helps the ground lads with baggage loading and offloading, he a hands on boss even though he’s a millionaire, don’t begrudge him cause of it
Aaron.
You’re the kind of dope that O’ Leary thrives on. You’re an average Journal reader.
@Rob O’ Reilly. See my post below.
Luke,
You haven’t a clue ya Dope!
Unless you have 1st hand knowledge on his work logic in Dublin Airport don’t bother commenting and embarrassing yourself, your just making yourself look petty and jealous of a successful business man.
Yep. Michael has a special dope queue for you, and he knows he can charge you extra for it and you’ll pay it happily. . Fastest dope on the plane competition, and you’d be up there lad.
in fact he’ll let you board quicker if you have a e199 yearly dope voucher you can’t print out, and he also has like willy wonka, a special seat reserved on each flight for dope of the year.
Guess what Aaron? It’s all yours.
Ha ha thats it Luke, keep coming with the sarcastic and stupid remarks, just shows your a green eyed monster and has no clue about it, keep trying to be funny, its all you can do, otherwise you’ll feel as stupid as you look.
Yep. I’m a green eyed monster. Great retort.
@Rob O’ Reilly.
All I can do is offer you my support and tell you the world is full of Aarons as you know.Even the vet would put them down for a nominal sum.
@ Luke and Aaron
Children stop fighting. You can both get me a beer. :-)
Its amazing what some people believe. I actually hugely respect the guy, he is a marketing genius. Him collecting tickets isnt him doing the job because say someone called in sick and he went down to helpout. It is a publicity operation that creates a visual presence so people talk about him or report him/ the brand. (Which he has successfully done here with social media) He actively seeks free publicity from the media as a method of advertising. SR Technics fisco was a major sucess too. It was well know in the industry that Ryanair were going to Prestwick anyway and he told the press the government would negotiate with him. Knowing the public feeling about FF gov at the time, he knew that there would be huge media coverage over jobs being lost due to perceived government incompetence. In the end alll he did was get the hopes of the SR Technics staff up that they would have a job and create free advertising. They go fired and people think O’Leary/Ryanair cares a bout the little guy. Marketing genius.
I will be traveling Ryanair Cork/ Stansted on the 14 dec all for 65 euro return,is it any wonder they will carry over 80 million passengers this year.
nothing new there. it’s a regular occurrence to see him doing that.
Pajo has sh*te photography skills.
Why is this news? He’s done this many times before.
I think any flight he is taking himself he usually does this on?
Ireland’s Mandela….
Hardly appropriate on the day that’s in it
With the flight delayed, Did the passengers have to wait an hour & half on the stairwell after they were checked-in?
Probably Alan, cattle is all passengers are to Ryanair!
Hard to figure all the thumbs down, I waited on stairwell loads of times waiting on a Ryanair plane to arrive, it felt like people being treated like cargo
Michael. Please treat customers as “Human Beings” .
You have a good product. You have good staff who obey your orders!
It’s right to have rules but please allow travellers to purchase goods in Airports even a bottle of whiskey!
Be flexible!
Otherwise you will lose travellers goodwill!
I desire a free flight as your adviser! Ha!ha!
Buy whiskey.
Put in carry on luggage.
Board plane.
Simples!
Sorry to say Dermot… I flew them last week ( to stansted) and you can now bring on one duty free bag in addition to your carry on bag!!!! It’s great. Not him being nice. Now he has budget market wrapped up he’s targeting all groups who have not bought into his product by doing things like this! ( in my opinion)!! Genius!!!
European directive.same with handbags.
Only explanation is that you must work for Ryanair or the stassi
About 3 or 4 years ago I was in Murcia airport in Alicante if memory serves me right. Murcia was an army base and I think Ryanair managed to get permission to use it for landing as far as I can remember.
So, there I was minding my own business in the middle of nowhere, and along comes Michael with photographers, pretty young ones and young fellas handing out e50 notes to people all over the shop as a Ryanair promo.
Can’t remember the promo off hand but it was “we’re e50 cheaper that xxxx for the same flight” type thing.
Checked in a bag on Ryanair last night 3kg over and they never said a word , the week before I was one kg over and nothing was said so this time I didn’t bother weighing it. It’s the slippery slope Michael next time I will try a bigger carry on bag.
If Michael O leary offered to pay for my fair I’d stick it up he’s hole.
I’ve boycotted his cheap airline outfit for years since hearing his mealy motor mouth and seeing his smug face everywhere. I might join the boarding Que though, just to give his smug face a good SLAP.
Great.
I’ll continue to fly Ryanair safe in the knowledge that you’re not on the flight.
Who’s a bitter man eh
I’m with you on that one. I’ve nothing against the product and service by Ryanair. It’s a choice you make.
Tho I would not fly with them while O Leary works there. Absolute pig of a man. I’m not saying he hasn’t done a lot for joe public by bring down air fares, tho the way he speaks to/about/ and treats people I just couldn’t help pay his wages by flying Ryanair….
A nation divided
Those who like
Those who dislike
The likers are usually well informed
The dislikers are always from the endemic bunch of begrudgers who wait in the shadows for the opportunity to winge about a successful business man
I’m neutral but am eternally amused by the vitriol this topic always produces with both sides slugging it out to see who is right
A shallow victory indeed
But amusing nevertheless
Tom
The whingers are usually the gobsh!tes who have been stung for an overweight bag or forgetting to print their ticket.
People think the sun shines out of his hole, can’t stand the man myself.
I would be more impressed if he cleaned up my vomit in his vomit comet mid flight after eating one of his inflight meals..
I was the person who took the photo ..
Michael o Leary was actually signing autographs for his many many fans who wouldn’t fly with any other sh1t heap but RYANAIR…….
So your saying Ryanair is a sh1t heap like all other airlines is it..?
He did the same on my flight about 2 months ago, checked my pass, sat in front of me
Would love to see him weigh passengers bags…
We are cargo …. Not ‘like’ cargo !;-)
O’Leary to run the ESB! Seriously, before you silly Irish vote in corrupt FF again like you always do. O’Leary would sort out those Union heads
o leary is having change forced on him by easyjet in the uk….more profitable than ryanair this year and giving the services ryanair have announced to its customers… so its nice to see o leary having to compete for once heres hoping easy jet starts to operate in ireland and we will see what o leary can do in the face of real competition big fish in small pond in ireland for too long……..before anybody moans i do fly ryanair and remember when you only paid the fare ie €1 each way or .1c flights before he started to add on the additional charges he lops on now. and still expect him to increase his charges by €3 airport tax the govt recently announced was been discontinued next year
Are you right there Michael ? Are you right? Do you think we’ll be there before the night? Sure it all depends on whether the ould engine stays together, are you right there are Michael ? Are you right?
‘ould engine stays together’…..Ironic considering they operate one of the newest aircraft fleets in the world
The worst and sad thing is the man himself feeds of all this sh/t
Mick for President.
Ryanair invented the airport queue. Now the irish are as bad as the rest of the world at queueing in case they miss something- ryanair are also responsible for letting the rest of europe see what a dubliner looks like on arrival on a friday night with an o’neill sports bag and not much else.
Fantastic comment from the Ryanair spokesperson.
Yea, like he really cares!
Great photos!
Man is a legend, that is how you deal with unions, simply ignore them
Bet he’s going into politics once he retires from Ryanair …. I can smell it a mile away !
Any time Journal.ie wants to generate hits they just wheel out MOL/Ryanair. Never fails. You’re buying a service from an airline, not bidding to be MOL’s best mate/worst enemy. Ryanair does what it does very well and recent changes have only improved the offering.
Don’t like it or him ? Don’t buy a ticket; find some other way to travel and shut up. Nobody really cares about the infantile bleating and it reflects very poorly on the nation.
At least MOL is high visibility. CEO’s of most other airlines are invisible and the vast majority on here couldn’t even name them, let alone recognise them at a check-in desk.
I saw a crew member from ryanair tearing open someones soup with their teeth up in tbe galley on my last ryanair flight!! I guess the
Near boiling water might have dealt with the germs- but on a positive note the customer might not have paid taxes and had a freeweb checkin!!! Bonus
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