Troubador of travel O’Leary lights up RDS

ROLL up, ladies and gentlemen, roll up! Ringmaster Michael O’Leary here, willing and able to answer your questions about my incredible flying machines, the Ryanair cheapo flights.

It was a little like that in the RDS Simmonscourt yesterday when Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary held court at the Holiday World Show.

Akin to a rambunctious circus act, he held the audience in thrall for almost an hour, in between managing to suggest a tank assault on the Department of Transport, lambasting the “stupid” government “numpties”, and describing himself as “the world’s greatest gobshite”.