O Leary on "Jeremiahs", "Dumbos", "idiot politicians" and "useles

Dionysus

I hate him, but he is a legend. Marian Finucane is having an hour-long interview with him on RTÉ Radio 1 now. It's not boring!

Finucane is hilarious: "You don't seem to think much of our senior civil servants?" O Leary goes ballistic once again. Great radio!

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/index.html
(http://www.rte.ie/radio/liveplayer2_av.html?1_real,http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/live/radio/radio1.smil,real,200)

Benny_Cake

If you hate him,what exactly is it that makes him a "legend"? Just waiting for someone to come along and say "If Michael O'Leary was in charge of the country.." etc

My name is URL

If by legend you mean insufferable twat, then yes

Dionysus

Benny_Cake wrote: »

If you hate him,what exactly is it that makes him a "legend"? Just waiting for someone to come along and say "If Michael O'Leary was in charge of the country.." etc

Two reasons, in particular:

His idiosyncratic, and invariably entertaining, grasp of the English language.

His ability to be a man-eating tiger on Morning Ireland at 7.05am any morning of any week when most people are just stumbling out of bed/into work - where is the man's Achilles' heel?


His politics - e.g. Charlie McCreevy was the best Minister for Finance ... - is repellant.

imme

what's a 'jeremiah'?, is he going down the David McWilliams road of naming all sorts of crap, Popes Children me arse

jerry2623

The bold Michael gets away with murder . He said you could fly from SNN to wherever for 6 euro taxs and charges included . I would be 99% certain that is untrue and this fare never excisted .Did Marion really challenge him not at all .
He said the Spanish love him and bend over backwards to help him .
He has pulled out of Valencia airport over charges Again was he challenged or questioned on this.
A value of his worth is the share price of his company which has gone from over 7 euro to 2.85

Dionysus

"My dog has more influence in this country than a senator!"

hehe.

Mark200

jerry2623 wrote: »

The bold Michael gets away with murder . He said you could fly from SNN to wherever for 6 euro taxs and charges included . I would be 99% certain that is untrue and this fare never excisted .Did Marion really challenge him not at all .
He said the Spanish love him and bend over backwards to help him .
He has pulled out of Valencia airport over charges Again was he challenged or questioned on this.
A value of his worth is the share price of his company which has gone from over 7 euro to 2.85

Yet his profits of €387m for the six months to September 2009 were an 80% increase on the year before while most other major airlines are reporting losses.

Seaneh

Also, haven't their shares split a few tomes since they were 7 each?

acermaple

He also mentioned that they were planning to intoduce a 'pre-paid' Mastercard as a way of avoiding paying credit card charges, does anyone know what this is all about?

Mark200

Is there any way to listen to the show later on? I had a quick look on the rte website but can't find anything

quietsailor

acermaple wrote: »

He also mentioned that they were planning to intoduce a 'pre-paid' Mastercard as a way of avoiding paying credit card charges, does anyone know what this is all about?

Payzone are doing this already through mastercard - I don't know if one of these will allow you to dodge his extra charges though, I'll be interested to see what he does on this issue

Lord Trollington

Mark200 wrote: »

Yet his profits of €387m for the six months to September 2009 were an 80% increase on the year before while most other major airlines are reporting losses.

And Cutting staff, decreasing their routes.
Ryanair are constantly looking to expand.
He is one of teh best Businessmen to come out of this country.

jesus_thats_gre

acermaple wrote: »

He also mentioned that they were planning to intoduce a 'pre-paid' Mastercard as a way of avoiding paying credit card charges, does anyone know what this is all about?

I imagine it will be an Electron credit card like that already available through Entropay.

mickdw

jesus_thats_gre wrote: »

I imagine it will be an Electron credit card like that already available through Entropay.

I already use this. Zero fees apply. It can easily be used from ireland.

Captain Havoc

jesus_thats_gre wrote: »

I imagine it will be an Electron credit card like that already available through Entropay.

No, electron is same is Laser really, when I had Electron years ago it was denied in a load of places outside France. There is a prepaid Visa card already out or check out 3V.

Benny_Cake

Dionysus wrote: »

Two reasons, in particular:

His idiosyncratic, and invariably entertaining, grasp of the English language.

His ability to be a man-eating tiger on Morning Ireland at 7.05am any morning of any week when most people are just stumbling out of bed/into work - where is the man's Achilles' heel?


His politics - e.g. Charlie McCreevy was the best Minister for Finance ... - is repellant.

I'll grant you - he does have an entertaining turn of phrase now and then. Have to say though that I can't get past his politics, and people attach way too much importance to his every utterance.

jerry2623

Seaneh wrote: »

Also, haven't their shares split a few tomes since they were 7 each?

Yes he did split them once when they were 8 euro somthing to a value of €5.50 .which was not quiet 2/1 .They are still worth less than half what they were worth 3 years ago even taking the split into account.

The reason his profits were up 80% was that he hedged his oil at the top of the market at 140 a barrell despite oil falling to below 50 for most of the year . He is now hedged at around 80 euro

I wont even go there on his attempt to Buy E.I at 3 euro a share.

I personally think he is not the Demi God that people make him out to be and It really pisses me The way he can get away with making the most amazing claims unchallenged as happened with his hour long dictate this morning

Ulysses Gaze

If by legend you mean insufferable twat, then yes

Can't be any worse than 90% of the Dail then.

Give me O'leary in the Dail ahead of Frank Fahey, Martin Cullen, O'Dea or any of the other Gombeen inhabitants.

The one reason I can't abide listening to him rabbit on about politics is because his political hero is the corrupt Haughey.

stovelid

The bloke would lick out a toilet bowl for profit. Fair enough, but I'm sick of hearing his consistent jackass braying being passed off as anything other than publicity-seeking. It's been said before but Ryanair do well despite most of his outbursts, not because of them.

Mark200

stovelid wrote: »

It's been said before but Ryanair do well despite most of his outbursts, not because of them.

I definitely disagree with that. His constant outbursts get him into the news, and so gets Ryanair into the news. The only negative publicity that Ryanair could get is from a serious crash or something like that. Besides that, any other publicity just reminds people that Ryanair are around and gets it into peoples' heads that they are the cheapest around too.

I'd guess that the majority of people who are looking to book flights to somewhere in Europe will almost always check the Ryanair website first. Not necessarily because they do genuinely believe that Ryanair are the cheapest, but because they instantly associate Ryanair with flights because of all the publicity surrounding Ryanair in contrast to the little or no publicity surrounding Aer Lingues or British Airways besides cut backs and staff layoffs.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

Can't be any worse than 90% of the Dail then.

Give me O'leary in the Dail ahead of Frank Fahey, Martin Cullen, O'Dea or any of the other Gombeen inhabitants.

The one reason I can't abide listening to him rabbit on about politics is because his political hero is the corrupt Haughey.

Dear God, no. As an entrepuenr, yes. I use his services all the time. As a politican, no. Because - and I'm almost SICK fo ****ing saying it - YOU CAN NOT RUN A COUNTRY AS IF IT WAS A PROFIT-MAKIGN COMPANY

Cookie_Monster

he a genius. ther goevernment could learn so much on how to run the country and how to deal with all the vested interests if only they listened to him

Dionysus wrote: »

His politics - e.g. Charlie McCreevy was the best Minister for Finance ... - is repellant.

he was

Arathorn

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

YOU CAN NOT RUN A COUNTRY AS IF IT WAS A PROFIT-MAKIGN COMPANY

It should at least be run to try and break even..

My name is URL

It's easy for some uninvolved multi-millionaire to criticize how things are done

if anything he says was worth a fcuk he'd become a politician and try to do something about it, but no he's happy enough to take any opportunity he gets to vomit out his own agendas and **** his own ego, the pompous prick

jerry2623

My name is URL wrote: »

It's easy for some uninvolved multi-millionaire to criticize how things are done

if anything he says was worth a fcuk he'd become a politician and try to do something about it, but no he's happy enough to take any opportunity he gets to vomit out his own agendas and **** his own ego, the pompous prick

Here Here ,But maybe I would not quiet use the same wording

jerry2623

Charlie McCreevy was the best Minister for Finance !!!

The same Charlie was the man to introduce section 23 and encourged all this spend and borrow more mentality which has us in the **** we are in :mad:

ragg

He was in cracking form this morning

She asked him where he goes on holidays - His answer, Mullingar :pac:

damone

is there no Ryanair staff on this who can tell us what he s like to work for ?,i know one pilot who works for him and is dying to get out and as far away as possible
his headline/picture grabbin "stunts" with the wacky faces and costumes make me wanna vomit
i gave up flyin ryanair a long time ago ,never again !!!

Prof.Badass

Only a fool would trust this man. Why is he even getting airtime?

deadhead13

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

he a genius. ther goevernment could learn so much on how to run the country and how to deal with all the vested interests if only they listened to him

I wouldn't want to work for Ryanair and I definitely wouldn't want to live in a country that Michael O'Leary had any part in running.

rugbyman

damone wrote: »

is there no Ryanair staff on this who can tell us what he s like to work for ?,i know one pilot who works for him and is dying to get out and as far away as possible
his headline/picture grabbin "stunts" with the wacky faces and costumes make me wanna vomit
i gave up flyin ryanair a long time ago ,never again !!!

Strange comment this! why does the pilot you know stay. can he not leave and bring his/her talents to a better place.
Rugbyman

stovelid

Mark200 wrote: »

I definitely disagree with that. His constant outbursts get him into the news, and so gets Ryanair into the news..

I honestly think even the majority of people who admire MOL cringe at half the stuff he comes out with.

Ryanair is a overwhelming success because it offers a cheap product that a large amount of people want. I doubt that the publicity comes into it at this stage. Perhaps in the early days, not now imo.

Dionysus

Mark200 wrote: »

Is there any way to listen to the show later on? I had a quick look on the rte website but can't find anything

This morning's show is now available on the RTÉ website here:

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/marianfinucane/

(http://www.rte.ie/radio1/player_av.html?0,null,200,http://dynamic.rte.ie/quickaxs/209-rte-marianfinucane.smil)

Mark200

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Dear God, no. As an entrepuenr, yes. I use his services all the time. As a politican, no. Because - and I'm almost SICK fo ****ing saying it - YOU CAN NOT RUN A COUNTRY AS IF IT WAS A PROFIT-MAKIGN COMPANY

The whole reason behind his, and Ryanair's, success is his eye for cutting un-necessary costs. That's what the Government needs.

opinion guy

O'Leary is an interesting character really isn't he ?
See my theory is that he's the guy who says and does stuff the rest of us only mouth off about. So we in equal parts love him and hate him for that. I mean what if anything somes the man's philosophy up - I think it would have to be the phrase "**** the begrudgers". Most of those in this country whine and moan and bitch - but ultimately for the vast majority of us its just bluff and we don't actually do anything about it. O'Leary is that most unusual of creatures - an Irishman who does more than just complain and moan and is actually prepared to put his money where his mouth is.

irish_bob

opinion guy wrote: »

O'Leary is an interesting character really isn't he ?
See my theory is that he's the guy who says and does stuff the rest of us only mouth off about. So we in equal parts love him and hate him for that. I mean what if anything somes the man's philosophy up - I think it would have to be the phrase "**** the begrudgers". Most of those in this country whine and moan and bitch - but ultimately for the vast majority of us its just bluff and we don't actually do anything about it. O'Leary is that most unusual of creatures - an Irishman who does more than just complain and moan and is actually prepared to put his money where his mouth is.

he is not a deliberating , fence sitting , appeasing brown noser so its no wonder so many hate him , this is of course also the reason why so many love him , o leary is marmite

Nodin

Mark200 wrote: »

Is there any way to listen to the show later on? I had a quick look on the rte website but can't find anything

Somebody may have flushed.

Mark200

Nodin wrote: »

Somebody may have flushed.

Huh?

Liam Byrne

imme wrote: »

Popes Children ........ me arse

Wouldn't go putting those 4 words in the same sentence these days!

S.L.F

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

he was

This is the same Charlie who's idea it was to decentralise the Civil Service all over the country.

Just so we all know it is costing at least a billion euro to do this and they reckon in 20 or 30 years they might break even.

Yeah great minister for finance.

As for MOL I understand the other politician he admired was Charles J. Haughty.

Arnold Layne

vinylmesh wrote: »

Only a fool would trust this man. Why is he even getting airtime?

For the same reason why we fools trust the 166 TDs that get airtime and also unelected persons such as Dan Boyle, Mary Lou McDonald, Eoghan Harris; do I need to go on?

At least when he speaks he has basically only one agenda (Ryanair); while those in the Dail, the majority of the Seanad, and others that get airtime; have the interests of banks, property developers, businessmen, criminals, etc. on their agenda.

deadbloke

vinylmesh wrote: »

Only a fool would trust this man. Why is he even getting airtime?

How is he any less trustworthy than the dail types?

newmills

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Dear God, no. As an entrepuenr, yes. I use his services all the time. As a politican, no. Because - and I'm almost SICK fo ****ing saying it - YOU CAN NOT RUN A COUNTRY AS IF IT WAS A PROFIT-MAKIGN COMPANY

You're absolutely right...much better to run it at a loss of €400 million a week, then expect the tax payer to take pay cuts and tax increases to cover the mess while the legions in power get chauffered between airport terminals because heaven forbid they'd have to breathe the same air as the rest of us....oh shít wait................

old boy

newmills wrote: »

You're absolutely right...much better to run it at a loss of €400 million a week, then expect the tax payer to take pay cuts and tax increases to cover the mess while the legions in power get chauffered between airport terminals because heaven forbid they'd have to breathe the same air as the rest of us....oh shít wait................

plus 100ks

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

newmills wrote: »

You're absolutely right...much better to run it at a loss of €400 million a week, then expect the tax payer to take pay cuts and tax increases to cover the mess while the legions in power get chauffered between airport terminals because heaven forbid they'd have to breathe the same air as the rest of us....oh shít wait................

Way to miss the point! Or would you prefer he scrapped all non-profit based making departments? Social welfare, pensions, disibility? Next thing you'll be suggesting he build large ovens...