Is dismissal self-serving or plausible? Michael O’Leary on climate change

Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary is one of the most successful businessmen this country has produced. He radiates a can-do, won’t-take-no-for-an-answer determination and positivity.

He is such a forceful, successful figure that it is often suggested that he is the kind of person needed to drive change in struggling State organisations.

Despite all of those achievements last weekend he jumped on a discredited bandwagon when he joined Dáil deputy Danny Healy-Rae and Donald Trump’s drill-baby-drill flat-earthers by denying climate change.