{"id":342876,"date":"2026-03-12T19:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/342876\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T19:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:01:14","slug":"ryanair-co-founders-children-share-untold-family-story-behind-airlines-meteoric-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/342876\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair co-founder\u2019s children share untold family story behind airline\u2019s meteoric rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ryanair campervan, Jenny, left and Justin Ryan, right, with maternal grandmother Jean O'Sullivan, Turbulence, RT\u00c9 One and RT\u00c9 Player. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/7ddd608f-3015-469a-8226-88156b7ecb7a.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 campervan, Jenny, left and Justin Ryan, right, with maternal grandmother Jean O&#8217;Sullivan, Turbulence, RT\u00c9 One and RT\u00c9 Player. <\/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)\">A new RT\u00c9 documentary exploring the birth of Ryanair as a transformative force in world aviation is to be aired on Monday, with two Waterford siblings recalling the central role their father Christy Ryan played in the airline\u2019s turbulent formation.<\/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)\">Turbulence: The Story of Ryanair explores the personal and inside stories at the heart of Ryanair\u2019s origins, as well as offering expert commentary on its infamous brash, irreverent approach to marketing over the years, and the strategies of CEO Michael O\u2019Leary, which transformed the airline, and air travel in Ireland and across Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryanair campervan, Jenny, left and Justin Ryan, right, with maternal grandmother Jean O&#8217;Sullivan, Turbulence, RT\u00c9 One and RT\u00c9&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,37898,61,60,6085,1899],"class_list":["post-342876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-eoin-kelleher","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-rte","tag-ryanair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342876","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=342876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}