{"id":351950,"date":"2026-03-18T04:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/351950\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T04:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:05:16","slug":"eilis-ohanlon-rtes-turbulence-the-story-of-ryanair-is-as-brash-and-unstuffy-as-michael-olearys-no-frills-airline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/351950\/","title":{"rendered":"Eilis O\u2019Hanlon: RT\u00c9\u2019s Turbulence,\u00a0The Story of Ryanair is as brash and unstuffy as Michael O\u2019Leary\u2019s no-frills airline"},"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\">\nTelevision reviw\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"RT\u00c9's 'Turbulence: The Story of Ryanair' charts the rise of the budget airline\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/456c94cc-ac5c-4075-aeb5-7e987ea69d85.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)\">RT\u00c9&#8217;s &#8216;Turbulence: The Story of Ryanair&#8217; charts the rise of the budget airline<\/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)\">Ryanair was founded in 1984. In those early days, it wasn\u2019t even called Ryanair. It was Danren Enterprises, possibly the dullest name ever for an airline.<\/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)\">Michael O\u2019Leary himself didn\u2019t join the company until 1988, and didn\u2019t take over as CEO until 1994. RTE\u2019s new two-part documentary Turbulence: The Story of Ryanair (RT\u00c9 One, Monday, 9.30pm) made the wise decision, however, to begin its tale of \u201chow a brash, scrappy Irish airline became a giant in global aviation\u201d with a montage of O\u2019Leary saying madcap things, because that\u2019s what the company soon became best known for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Television reviw RT\u00c9&#8217;s &#8216;Turbulence: The Story of Ryanair&#8217; charts the rise of the budget airline Ryanair was founded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,10726,6992,6085,1899],"class_list":["post-351950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-michael-oleary","tag-people-culture-magazine","tag-rte","tag-ryanair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351950","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=351950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}