{"id":669495,"date":"2026-10-30T03:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T03:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/669495\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T03:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T03:46:13","slug":"celebrated-sri-lankan-cricketer-claims-ryanair-staff-at-dublin-airport-were-discriminatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/669495\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrated Sri Lankan cricketer claims Ryanair staff at Dublin Airport were \u2018discriminatory\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/sri-lanka\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/sri-lanka\/\">Sri Lankan<\/a> cricketer Kumar Sangakkara has accused <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ryanair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ryanair\/\">Ryanair<\/a> staff in Dublin of \u201cdiscriminatory\u201d behaviour as he was attempting to board a flight to Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Sangakkara, who is regarded as being among the best cricketers in history, alleged on social media that he and his family faced \u201cdiscriminatory\u201d Ryanair gate personnel at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin-airport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin-airport\/\">Dublin Airport<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celebrated Sri Lankan cricketer Kumar Sangakkara has accused Ryanair staff in Dublin of \u201cdiscriminatory\u201d behaviour as he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-669495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669495","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=669495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}