Ryanair's biggest achievement? Bringing low fares to Europe and still lowering em. Biggest failure? Hiring me.

Ryanair brings lots of different cultures to the beaches of Spain, Greece and Italy, where they couple and copulate in the interests of pan-European peace.

The airline industry is full of bullshitters, liars and drunks. We excel at all three in Ireland.

When you look at the number of stupid people who have succeeded in business, you clearly don't have to be very bright. Business is all about getting your sales up and your costs down, the bit in the middle is profit.

I'm disrespectful towards authority. I think the prime minister of Ireland is a gobshite.

We need more people to go into business and fewer wasting our lives becoming bureaucrats and civil servants.

If global warming meant temperatures rose by one or two degrees, France would become a desert, which would be no bad thing. The Scots would grow wine and make buffalo mozzarella.