In all the time I worked for Ryanair, I diverted due to poor weather 6/7 times in 4.5 years as a Captain and I never heard a sniff from "Management".
This culture of bullying is prevalent in industrial relations, but not flight operations (in my opinion). However if Ryanair stopped being such a bunch of gyppo's and installed ACARS it would make things so much easier for everybody to share information and plan.
I can imagine what a total mess it was in Madrid that night having been there myself many many times. I was often dissappointed that Ryanair didn't plan ahead a bit when poor weather was forecast and perhaps fly to a different destination or even cancel the flight. In particular I am referring to snow in Eastern Europe and lets not forget the shambles when we had that terrible snow here!
Don't be too quick to judge - it could be one of us next.
Fireflybob - Paperwork - Semantics. xx
