Ryanair apologises to Corkman it accepts was wrongly banned from flying with airline

Complainant claimed company had defamed him after it wrongly accused him of engaging in alleged disruptive behaviour on a date earlier this year when he neither travelled on a Ryanair flight nor was he present at Dublin Airport

Ryanair said complainant had been 'mistakenly identified' as a disruptive passenger alleged to have been involved in an altercation with the airline's staff, which required the assistance of airport police on January 2 last. File picture: Larry Cummins

Ryanair has "sincerely and unreservedly apologised" before the High Court to a Cork quantity surveyor who claimed he had been wrongly banned from flying with the airline.

Eoin Michael Cahill sued the airline, which, he claimed, had defamed him after it wrongly accused him of engaging in alleged disruptive behaviour on a date earlier this year when he neither travelled on a Ryanair flight nor was he present at Dublin Airport.