Posts such as that posted by Fish Out of Water "Boo moderators, boo! Or should I say, !!!!, ar5e............drink" are not only stupid and childish, but undermine the integrity of PPRuNe and, as anyone with a modicum of intelligence can deduce, the very carfully-written post made by Danny immediately above.
The incidents in question should be easily proven/disproven by reference to records made by the airport on the date in question. It is therefore entirely reasonable that the thread was removed whilst the IAA makes its investigations.
However, the activity of Ryanair's lawyers would seem to do little to improve the perception many might have of the airline, it has to be said. A simple "We are co-operating fully with the IAA's investigations and will, of course, take any appropriate action should it prove necessary once those investigations are complete" from Ryanair would surely have been a more reasonable way of defusing the situation?
Incidentally, the thread provoked a very interesting professional discussion amongst professional pilots at an aerodrome I visited last week. We were not discussing any specific airline as such, more the knock-on problems caused by schedule disruption whenever an airport (the one we were discussing was FRA) cannot maintain its everyday movement rate (particularly when the airport is a major hub for the operator) - and whether such commercial problems were a factor which might increasingly influence the Commanders' decisions, now that there is so little margin in the way airline rostering and scheduling is run right to the limit in European short haul operations.