Bumper passenger numbers for Ryanair

Ryanair today said it will carry a record 200,000 passengers on its 60 Irish routes this Bank Holiday weekend.

Commenting on the record figures, Ryanair’s head of communications, Peter Sherrard, said: “This is the last Bank Holiday of the year, and hundreds of thousands of Irish consumers are taking advantage of Ryanair’s low fares and jetting off for the weekend."