Mr O’Leary’s pay package was made up of basic pay of €1.2 million, a bonus payment of €600,000 and share options of €2.03 million.

He has qualified for the share options after shares in the Dublin-based company hit a six-year-old target.

The budget airline saw profits after tax fall 16% in 2024-25 following a 7% cut in fares.

Ryanair said it could look at alternative suppliers, including Chinese planemaker COMAC.

Michael O'Leary said the signs were Donald Trump would be supportive of Boeing, barring any repeat of high-profile safety incidents

Lubo Kosturik said the staff of Luvida Restaurant in Navan, Co Meath, have been "blown away" by the reaction the post has received

LAOIS Independent Republican TD Brian Stanley, while speaking in the Dáil on a debate on Public Expenditure said: “While we need to stop the waste of taxpayers’ money, we don’t need another Government Department run by an Elon Musk.

Michael O’Leary said the UK chancellor should scrap air passenger duty rather than ‘waffle on’ about Heathrow expansion

The airline said such a policy would result in ‘a safer travel experience for passengers and crews’.

Some seats on services from the UK to Ireland later this week and early next week are costing more than €600

The Taoiseach said he hoped voters would not judge him on the basis of a criticised encounter with a disability care worker in Co Cork.

Taoiseach Simon Harris’s party now trails both Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin, an Irish Times/Ipsos B&A survey indicates

The Public Expenditure Minister has come under scrutiny from the opposition over the February 2022 meeting with the airline chief.

The Taoiseach suggested voters are more interested in ‘bread and butter’ issues than the controversies his party has encountered in recent times.

Rose Conway-Walsh was speaing as the party published their housing policies.

‘How loud they laughed and giggled and guffawed and sneered at teachers,’ Louise O’Reilly said about the crowd’s behaviour from a Fine Gael event

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Analysis of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil's social media advertisements for the general election shows a lot of repetition when it comes to issues and slogans

The Ryanair boss had said he would not hire teachers to get things done, at a Fine Gael event at the weekend

The Ryanair boss also said that Media Minister Catherine Martin would be ‘far better off back in the classroom’.

The Ryanair boss suggested former teachers were not equipped to run the country.

The Ryanair chief executive said it was ‘vital’ Ireland elected a government ‘that delivered’.

Chief executive Michael O’Leary said a planned rise in air passenger duty would make air travel ‘much more expensive’.

The Ryanair boss said State grants should be handed out faster to help small farmers go green.

Michael O’Leary criticised the ongoing passenger cap at Dublin airport.

Michael O’Leary called for alcohol limits in airports to tackle a rise in disorder on flights.

Michael O’Leary said violent outbursts occur on his planes on a weekly basis.

Michael O'Leary claims tourism and jobs are being damaged by the 32 million passenger cap, introduced in Dublin in 2007.

Chief executive Michael O’Leary said that while demand is strong, pricing is set to be ‘materially lower’ than last summer.

Ryanair's O'Leary ups pressure on Boeing with meeting in Dublin

The Ryanair boss met with the Minister for Transport on Thursday

Eamon Ryan said he would ‘set the record straight’ with Michael O’Leary

The Dublin-based airline said it will be forced to make ‘minor schedule changes’.

The airline claims the cap limits its plan to grow its Irish traffic by 50% by 2030.

Michael O’Leary predicted that Ryanair’s ticket prices will be up to 10 per cent more expensive this summer compared with the same period last year.

The airline boss has previously called the Minister for Transport “incompetent” and an “idiot”

The Irish airline has previously strongly complained about online travel agents selling its flights without permission.

Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary blamed the anti-trust investigation on Italy's populist leadership

Michael O’Leary made the comment as he launched a tirade calling for National Air Traffic Services (Nats) chief executive Martin Rolfe to be sacked.