For a long time the market in pilots favoured Ryanair. If the balance of power shifts to the pilots, then cultural change will follow at the company, writes Michael Clifford

IT’S that time of year again. The great and good of public life pack their buckets and spades and head off to the wilds of Donegal to muse over the road less travelled.

There were few scenes more pleasing to the eye for Mayo supporters during Sunday’s Connacht final than that of Cillian O’Connor scoring a hat-trick of goals and popping over frees with his customary aplomb.

Yesterday our columnist and ex-government minister Ivan Yates touted Ryanair chief Michael O’Leary to run the country. The column sparked a huge reaction. But was he right?