{"id":215252,"date":"2025-12-28T21:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T21:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/215252\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T21:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T21:05:12","slug":"ryanairs-oleary-slams-the-taoiseach-and-queries-trip-to-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/215252\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair&#8217;s O\u2019Leary slams the Taoiseach and queries trip to Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu internal_Body1st\">Ryanair chief executive Michael O\u2019Leary has labelled Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin \u201cuseless\u201d, adding that he does not believe Mr Martin will still be in his role by July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Along with Mr O\u2019Leary expressing frustration with the Government, he also criticised Mr Martin specifically over issues with Ireland\u2019s roads, healthcare and housing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">However, the Dublin Airport passenger cap was a big issue for Mr O\u2019Leary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cThe Government will work with stakeholders to achieve our objective of scrapping the f**king cap at Dublin Airport,\u201d he told a Sunday newspaper. \u201cTwelve months later, nothing. Meanwhile, your man is wandering around. That\u2019s him [Mr Martin] opening up the baggage hall in Kerry Airport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He also questioned the Taoiseach\u2019s recent trip to Lebanon. \u201cWe have a minister of defence! What\u2019s the Taoiseach doing in Lebanon?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Mr O\u2019Leary also said he does not believe Mr Martin will be Taoiseach when Ireland begins its EU Council presidency in July, adding: \u201cWe\u2019re going to go after Miche\u00e1l Martin because he\u2019s useless.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryanair chief executive Michael O\u2019Leary has labelled Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin \u201cuseless\u201d, adding that he does not believe Mr&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[79,25430,61,60,1843,43],"class_list":["post-215252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-news","tag-cork-politics","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-micheal-martin","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215252","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=215252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}