O’Leary’s free market falls to earth

THE comments by Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary (December 18) on the Lisbon Treaty, and in particular his comments in relation to Sinn Féin and his claim that the party are a “bunch of economic illiterates”, made me laugh.

Sadly, if we weren’t in the middle of a national, regional and global economic crisis some people might even have been tempted to take him seriously.

The unfortunate reality is that the recession and credit crisis have been brought about by ‘free market’ economic policies promoted by the likes of Mr O’Leary and the other so-called captains of industry at home and abroad.