Hi FN,
Easy has 120 A319 on order.
Ryanair is an Irish company. Why should they prefer a Type Rating conducted with a British TRTO? If you check their website, they suggest getting your rating either in The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden or the UK, whereas the UK course is the only one without definate starting date, also it is the only of the 4 schools which does the course on the aircraft that Ryanair is phasing out (-200).
Many JAR TRTOs do the Base Training outside their own country, some of them even in Canada, the US, Slovakia, Malta...