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.

The European Union spends most of its time either suing me, torturing me, criticizing me or condemning me for lowering the cost of air travel all over Europe.

All flights are fuelled with Leprechaun wee and my bullshit!

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

I came into business to make money, I make no apology for that. I wanted to make a lot of money but after the first £50million or £100million, it became less about making money and more about having fun.

The most influential person in Europe in the last 20 to 30 years has been Margaret Thatcher. Without her we'd all be living in some French bloody unemployed republic.

If drink sales are falling off, we get the pilots to engineer a bit of turbulence. That usually spikes sales.