No, the answer from the chat team is children they must be booked as a child or could be denied boarding. This is also suggestion in paragraph 6.2 of the T&Cs.
Gate check is have you a valid ticket.
If so you can board.
Unless you being difficult or obnoxious there is no reason for them to deny boarding, if being difficult then it would be for other reasons.
Doubtful most gate crew would know or care of that section.
Have never heard of a single case of someone being denied boarding because they had booked an adult fare for a child.
Bearing in mind how long I have been on here and time spent on FR thread it would have come up.
Especially when Ryanair were in media every week plus the number of long departed posters who confused Fact and Fiction would have jumped at it.
No, but if someone is forced into a supposedly free seat reservation (for the child), available seats should be given at the same conditions if standard ones are not available.
Yeah, agree on this as not an unreasonable point.
Email them or write to the customer care team, may not be a huge issue but they may require you to split so if 2 seats avail in Standard you have 2 there and 2 in non standard.
It may not be a huge issue for them to do just a software update.