{"id":186779,"date":"2025-12-11T22:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/186779\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T22:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:29:11","slug":"gardai-storm-ryanair-plane-in-dublin-after-wild-mid-air-shirt-ripping-brawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/186779\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardai storm Ryanair plane in Dublin after wild mid air &#8216;shirt ripping brawl&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Ryanair flight from Kaunas to Dublin was met by gardai after a dramatic mid air altercation.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1_ryanair-incident.jpg\" alt=\"Ryanair Cabin Crew called ahead for Garda assistance before landing in Dublin following a mid air altercation\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Ryanair Cabin Crew called ahead for Garda assistance before landing in Dublin following a mid air altercation<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Passengers onboard a <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishmirror.ie\/all-about\/ryanair\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Ryanair flight<\/a> to Dublin Airport were left shocked today after a mid air altercation broke out between two men.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A passenger on flight FR2972 from Kaunas, Lithuania claimed the dramatic row erupted halfway through the journey. At one point, one of the men allegedly &#8220;ripped the other&#8217;s shirt off during the struggle&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Cabin crew quickly intervened and managed to prevent the situation from escalating further. However, the disturbance was serious enough that they called ahead for <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishmirror.ie\/all-about\/gardai\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Garda assistance <\/a>before landing in Dublin shortly before 12.30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The eyewitness said: &#8220;We were held on the tarmac for approximately 20 minutes while <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishmirror.ie\/all-about\/an-garda-siochana\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">gardai <\/a>and Airport Police boarded the plane. The two men involved in the incident were removed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Ryanair confirmed the incident, with a spokesperson telling the Irish Mirror: &#8220;Crew on this flight from Kaunas to <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishmirror.ie\/all-about\/dublin\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Dublin <\/a>(11 Dec) called ahead for police assistance after a group of passengers became disruptive onboard. The aircraft was met by police and these passengers were removed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_ryanair-incident.jpg\" alt=\"Ryanair Cabin Crew called ahead for Garda assistance before landing in Dublin following a mid air altercation\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Ryanair Cabin Crew called ahead for Garda assistance before landing in Dublin following a mid air altercation<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The airline also stressed its stance on unruly behaviour, adding: &#8220;Ryanair has a strict zero tolerance policy towards passenger misconduct and will continue to take decisive action to combat unruly passenger behaviour, ensuring that all passengers and crew travel in a respectful and stress-free environment, without unnecessary disruption.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">It is understood that no arrests were made following the incident.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765492151_702_0_ryanair-incident.jpg\" alt=\"Ryanair Cabin Crew called ahead for Garda assistance before landing in Dublin following a mid air altercation\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Ryanair Cabin Crew called ahead for Garda assistance before landing in Dublin following a mid air altercation<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest news from the Irish Mirror direct to your inbox: Sign up <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishmirror.ie\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=39e53cb8-b266-4e33-8d00-e9f7a38f420c&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Ryanair flight from Kaunas to Dublin was met by gardai after a dramatic mid air altercation.Ryanair Cabin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,72,11900,7782,61,60,1899],"class_list":{"0":"post-186779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-dublin-airport","11":"tag-gardai","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-ryanair"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}