This morning the boss of Ryanair was speaking at a conference in the Aviva Stadium in Dublin and responded to comments from Dublin City Council about enhancing cycling in Dublin city.
“That’s all we need in Dublin is more blooming bicycles,”Mr O’Leary told the Creative Minds conference this morning in the Aviva.
“In a country where it rains about 250 days a year, the way forward for Dublin is, more bicycles. Let’s just go back to walking all together. Soon we’ll be living in caves designed by Dublin City Council. Traffic won’t work, there’s nowhere to park the cars and yet this is a smarter way forward. We should take the cyclists out and shoot them.”
“We should create a city that works given that this is a low rise, broadly based city and I speak as one of the commuters who commutes on a daily basis from Mullingar. I can’t do it by bicycle… I want to drive and I expect Dublin City to come up with a smarter way for me to get around Dublin and be able to park my car somewhere in the middle of Dublin without it being dug up every six weeks so we can have some other faddy non sustainable public transport solution.”
“I hate to pick on Dublin City Council, but shit they’re here and they deserve a slapping.”
I expect nothing different from that poisonous leprechaun. A total ignoramus.
A bit racist with your comment butty
Nothing racist about a white man calling another white man a leprechaun.
Racist? A leprechaun is defined as a type of fairy in Irish folklore. I rest my case, and anyway I’m sure he’s been called worse.
He has.
Just jumping on the bandwagon of everybody being a racist.
Bellend.
Says the prick with a taxi plate on his car!
I already despised everything about this man… And this just confirms my hatred towards him.
Give me one round in the Boxing Ring with him and we will see what he would say then.
Read the article!!!
Fuck you very much you Irish tossbag
I don’t like him either Oz, no need to be a xenophobic creep about it.
Joey
Ryanair Board should fire him. He’s hardly an ambassador for the company. An entitled prick. From Wikipedia, “In 2004 he purchased a taxi plate for his Mercedes-Benz S-Class, to enable it to be classified as a taxi so that he could legally make use of Dublin’s bus lanes to speed up his car journeys around the city. A press report suggested that since he had stopped driving his own taxi, he has employed a driver with full PSV licence. In 2005 the Irish transport minister expressed concern at this abuse by O’Leary and others.” Entitlement is more like it. I will never fly Ryanair as a result of his comments and general asshole behavior.
Boss of Ryanair a self centred and rather distasteful, used scrotum lining ……. shocker!!
From the same twat who was planning to take the seats out of aircraft. Total imbecile.
Brendan Kelleher
Nice!! really want to book flight with those jokers now!
he is a fairly scummy person to be fair!
The sort of shite I’d expect from the mouth of this cunt!
Colin O’Connor
What do you expect from a pig only a grunt
his solution is more people should drive? That will ease the traffic problems
He is dead right about DCC though. Stone Age thinking
I’d hate to be unfair about Ryanair, but they are shit at running an airline LOL
Easy on the Irish slurs. He’s an ass to Irish people too. Thankfully I no longer need to use his CRying air services.
Hey…Mr o Leary…we cyclist are the same people who use your airline when travelling abroad to cycle or otherwise. ..worth bearing in mind..that we pay the wage that keeps the roof above your head….
Life is not all about you and what you need….
But he’ll charge you a minumum £120 to take you bike on a return flight !!
He doesn’t mind taking £120 off cyclists to take their bike on his planes though eh ? Never again pal!
just a gobshite
Not like Michael to make inflammatory remarks!
No such thing as bad publicity.
Aidan Mullane Stephen Mullane Liam Kelly
He is a PR company’s wet-dream. Just when you thought Ruanair was disappearing off the airwaves he finds a way to get us talking about him. Genius, pure genius.
Having someone as nigh on universally loathed and looked down upon as Michael O’Leary spout such rubbish is pretty much a boon for cycling.
Unfortunately it doesn’t matter what he says as any publicity is good publicity. Although he doesn’t have a monopoly on flights there are few enough offering the variety and value that Ryanair does resulting in most of his seats being sold and his Company returning a good profit year on year. We need more airlines and more competition before he has to watch what he says in order not to offend customers.
Aye but it’s not like people are hanging on his words as if he’s Buddha.
He’s a well known and disrespected moron. What he says is often the subject of ridicule. Ergo his infantile pantomime abuse of cyclists and cycling can only raise the public perception of both.
He also abuses the overweight and children who need to use the toilet a lot – no he’s definitely the likeable sort.
Jeez – what a ‘keeper’.
Just realised my post should have read ‘he’s not a likeable sort’!
Just realised my post should have read ‘he’s not a likeable sort’!
Won’t fly Ryanair
John Farrell
Ireland’s greatest scum bag
The fucker lives halfway across the country, so he should shut up about anything considering city planning in Dublin.
Excellent customer relations again Michael. The Gerry Adams of the airline industry.
That’s why my bike got damaged so on flight to Majorca ..
Donal Hanrahan
Kevin Null
What a fucking idiot
He’s dead right, why the fuck would ya want to cycle through town in the pissin rain, if the traffic wasn’t so shit I bet a lot of you cunts whining on here would rather take the car✌
Well lets face it as an Airline Operaor he has no match, but in the Public Speaking arena
What a CLOWN!
arf! the fucking state of him. Those pipecleaner arms would struggle to pick up a gun never mind aim one.
There’s a saying that I vaguely remember that I think may apply here, “Better to be thought a fool, than open your mouth & remove all doubt”….
Good to know he treats his customers and cyclists alike!
Ah so he’s back to being a complete tool. In his defence his point was more about Dublin city’s lack of public transport and how the council is using cycling an alternative. Obviously they need both.
Shut it melon head
His comments should be a good enough reason for those paying through the nose to take their expensive bikes abroad to book with a different airline. In fact all cyclists should boycott his company as a matter of principle. Let your feet do the talking, you are the customer after all. It’s the only language he’d understand.
I could say the same about any number of demographics which annoy me to no end, if I was a total prick. But I’m not – so I don’t.
Boycott Ryan air