{"id":214742,"date":"2025-12-28T14:29:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T14:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/214742\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T14:29:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T14:29:16","slug":"michael-oleary-interview-were-going-to-go-after-micheal-martin-because-hes-useless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/214742\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael O\u2019Leary interview: \u2018We\u2019re going to go after Miche\u00e1l Martin because he\u2019s useless\u2019"},"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\">Airport caps, drones, the Government \u2013 and traffic: what\u2019s in the Ryanair boss\u2019s firing line for 2026\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SN MOL 4.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)\">Ryanair CEO Michael O&#8217;Leary. Photo: Getty<\/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)\">No bugle sounds as Michael O\u2019Leary arrives in a flurry into his office in Airside, 20 minutes behind schedule.<\/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)\">But he is looking sharp. He had diverted to the nearby Pavilions Shopping Centre for a haircut and was held up by early Monday morning shoppers queuing to get into the car park three days before Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Airport caps, drones, the Government \u2013 and traffic: what\u2019s in the Ryanair boss\u2019s firing line for 2026 Ryanair&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25746,969,11900,6353,61,60,10726,1843,43,3589,1899,16586],"class_list":{"0":"post-214742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-darragh-obrien","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-dublin-airport","11":"tag-fearghal-oconnor","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-michael-oleary","15":"tag-micheal-martin","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-russia","18":"tag-ryanair","19":"tag-volodymyr-zelensky"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214742","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=214742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}