With Ryanair, it's pretty simple.
They don't give a damn whether you're Irish, French, Spanish or anything else. Integrated/Modular makes no difference either.
You meet their requirements, you have little or no previous airline experience, you're less than 30 years old, preferably young with 200h, have the right to work in Europe and have €27500 in the bank, then you might get invited to the interview (which you have to pay for).
Which part of this don't you understand?
One poster above said they're not hiring Irish people because he wasn't invited himself.
Well ... they do recruit a lot, they do want your money, but believe it or not there are more than 400 new jobless pilots every year.
If you are 32 years old, although there have been people older than that joining the company in the past, there are very little chances to even get close to an interview with them.
Their training facilities (East Midlands and CAE in Amsterdam) are running at almost full capacity at the moment. Back in July, there were rumours recruitments would stop and there wouldn't be any new type rating course after October. Rumours are rumours, trust them if that makes you feel better.
Reality is simple. People from all over Europe (and this does include Ireland) are joining Ryanair. I've come across more than 5 new Irish guys in the past 2 months.
Before you join, have a deep look into the terms and conditions.
Everything is not as bad as depicted on some parts of this forum, but some other aspects are not quite enjoyable and people don't really talk about this on here.
I personnaly like the fact they send you out-of-base quite a lot (and to be honest, most people actually hate this). The network is great, the planes are new and in good conditions, you do get to fly a lot (although this is very much base-dependant), you can jumpseat anywhere around the network (well, at least that's the reality of it), the pay is decent, etc...
Now, on duty pilots and cabin crew don't get to interact much unlike other airlines. Cabin crew stay in the cabin, pilots are locked behind a door. If you're lucky, you'll get to talk to them for 2 minutes on a 3 hour flight when they bring you hot water for your coffee (which you do not have to pay for! Incredible, isn't it?).
A lot of crew don't speak very good English and stick to their mother language when several people of the same nationaly fly together.
Most new joiners are nice and friendly but some pilots are not fun to seat next to on 4 sector days. Most cockpit conversations are focused on "leaving Ryanair", while we pretty much all agree it isn't that bad in the end.
Bases. Now this is where you tend to get really frustrated. You want Madrid and a friend of yours wants Stansted, you'll get Stansted and your friend will get Madrid. That's how it works. I have met people applying for a particular base over a three year period and never get it while a lot of new cadets would go straight to there.
Some bases are actually really crap. You can be on standby's 4 days in a row every other week in winter in some bases (remember, you get paid for the amount of hours you spend up in the air, not on the ground on standby). Some airports (Madrid for example) have you taxi for half an hour every morning. You're paid on scheduled block hours, and block hours don't plan for 1/2h taxi twice a day ... You're still limited to 900 hrs total but get paid for 700.
Well, there are a lot of things going on about Ryanair. Look for yourself, see if it would suit you and most importantly, try to see if you have any other options or job opportuny (and most people probably don't).