{"id":416691,"date":"2026-04-25T09:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/416691\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T09:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:52:10","slug":"as-ryanair-reinvented-low-cost-aviation-michael-kearney-served-them-finger-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/416691\/","title":{"rendered":"As Ryanair reinvented low-cost aviation, Michael Kearney served them finger food"},"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\">The hotelier built his Carlton Hotel Group from a sheep field, and is about to build a new \u20ac30m hotel for budget-conscious millennials\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hotelier Michael Kearney. Photo: Mark Condren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69537c36-ad95-4c6c-9b10-b95bfb8a1f74.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)\">Hotelier Michael Kearney. Photo: Mark Condren<\/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)\">From the Carlton Hotel\u2019s dramatic top-floor restaurant terrace overlooking Runway 28 at Dublin Airport, you can practically see the passengers in the planes.<\/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 when Michael Kearney \u2013 the independent Irish hotel group\u2019s founder and driving force \u2013 first came to this spot in 1994, it was just a field full of sheep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The hotelier built his Carlton Hotel Group from a sheep field, and is about to build a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,10725,11900,23159,6353,61,11829,60,69197,10726,3413,1899],"class_list":["post-416691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-daa","tag-dublin-airport","tag-dublin-property","tag-fearghal-oconnor","tag-ie","tag-iran","tag-ireland","tag-m50","tag-michael-oleary","tag-national-development-plan","tag-ryanair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416691","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=416691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}