Originally Posted by Jamie2k9
Many UK based staff are on UK contracts and the UK is probably the largest or close to it for FR employment.
Granted, they have a UK holding company under which UK workers are employed, but the majority of their staff are on Irish contracts and pay Irish taxes. The point still stands, Ryanair is as Irish if not more so than Aer Lingus who also have a UK holding company and employ UK workers under UK contracts (and yet nobody is arguing Aer Lingus aren't Irish...).
It's just typically Irish that we have a company that is a world leader in their industry (one of a few such Irish companies) and one of the biggest airlines in the world, which we should proud of and yet some people don't even consider them Irish. And then we turn around and welcome the US multinationals with open arms as if they
are Irish companies.