What a bunch of whingers you lot are!!
What's Ryanair done for you? I'll tell you. It's put Ireland on the map from a tourism viewpoint - no way all those stag parties and hen nights could afford to go to Temple Bar at EI's prices!
It's introduced the previously alien concept of 'competition' to Irish skies, in place of the previous "let's divvy it up between us next time we meet down the yacht club" methodology.
It's created a new, young, vibrant, go-getter buzz in Irish aviation compared with the previous "ooh, more than my job's worth" and "you can't do that here" attitudes.
It's dragged Irish aviation kicking and screaming into the 21st century.
Crews find that they get well paid - but have to work bloody hard for it. And what's wrong with that?
Sure, MO'L's dictatorial management style could well do with being improved - management by fear doesn't work well in any environment.
And as for the cr@p being spouted about Aer Rianta's so-called 'subsidy' - just goes to show what you lot know about the commercial side of airlines! Aer Rianta, in common with pretty much every other airport in the world, offers incentives to attract in new operators. In Aer Rianta's case, those are 100% discounts (ie free) landing, parking and passenger charges for the first three years on new routes. So nothing sinister there!
Oh and I suggest you look at all the incentives/freebies Mrs O'Rourke provided for the Wooly Pully's short lived venture if you think FR is a unique case!