The way to handle this is for the union to write to the IAA and get there view of it in writing. The IAA either respect the ops. manual and a crewmembers right to decide if they are fatigued or not.
Its a yes or no.
If they respect it then they should take appropriate action against Ryanair or if they don't then let them go public on it and let them take responsibility for an incident where fatigue is a factor.
It wouldn't happen with the CAA. Only in crooked little, back slapping, brown envelope Ireland.
I don't know the legal JAR ops situation but way back when all this talk of JAR ops was going on I understood that jar ops member states would cross check each other.
If other member states sit back and allow another progressive?? member state, sit on the fence then they are as compliant in bringing on an incident.
We have had to many close incidents that could be put down to fatigue/stress. What are we waiting for??