akerosid,Why should the Irish Government or indeed Aer Rianta react to the FR deal?.Ryanair is a PLC 100% owned by the shareholders the majority of whom I suspect are not Irish citizens.As for accommodating them, the Government, through Aer Rianta, have just completed new Passenger terminal extentions at Dublin and Shannon and are well into the building of a new terminal at Cork. . .In addition plans are at an advanced stage for a new parallel runway at Dublin . All this should more than cope with whatever expansion plans Ryanair have........unless of course they want everything for free!!