What I don't understand is why are some of you having a go at the "airlines" safety? It is up to the captain to make sure he or she has briefed fully for the flight they are about to make. If there isn't enough time to do so because of the IAA approving a 45 minute report and the company don't supply enough material for the brief then the captain should have the courage of his or her convictions to refuse to operate until they are fully briefed.
Whilst the company may have a reputation for bullying management it still requires their pilots to stand together against any such tactics and unfortunately, it appears that they are unable to form a cohesive grouping to do so. That is probably down to their management culture of bullying tactics, as described recently by a high court judge, but until they manage to get their act together the company will always win. They may have delayed reporting this incident but they still reported it!
Looking at the report, I don't kow how you can blame the company for the crew not briefing before the flight and for still doing around 250kts at less than a mile from the runway, even if they were going to do a circling approach. This crew were extremely lucky and if it weren't for the EGPWS the the result could have been tragic.
The IAA, CAA and EASA have all got to share in the responsibility of this incident. The captain will be ultimately responsible but the chain of events started way back when the various regulatory bodies approved the AOC of Ryanair. To allow their restrictive, 45 minute duty reporting times when, as most of us know, especially those of us lucky enough to work for proper airlines, you know the ones, where safety really does come before profit, we either have a more realistic duty report time AND traffic personnel who put together a proper briefing pack and it is waiting there for us.
The regulatory body that allows a company to have a 45 minute report for a medium jet operation with up to six sector days has got to take the blame for that one. In a legacy airline operating heavy jet long haul routes, ie. single sector day, we have 90 minute report. It doesn't matter how short the sectors are, they still need the same amount of time to brief. 45 minutes is a joke, and a sad one when you find out that the crew have to prepare all their own paperwork, do the brief and then make it through the idiotic security system to the aircraft in that time. I'll bet that not one operations inspector has arrived at the report time and gone through the routine, on a regular basis and managed to do it in the time allocated.
So, crew report earlier than required, on their own time and still rush through it all, inadequately briefed. The IAA, Ryanair AND the pilots are all responsible. The only trouble is that the first people at the scene of an accident are the crew themselves!