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PROFITABLE RYANAIR’S PROBLEM IN THE COCKPIT

June 13, 2024

THE RYANAIR results for the full year to March 2024 show a modest 9% increase in passenger numbers to 184 million but a... Read more »

CARELESS TCD

May 16, 2024

FOR THE embattled dons of Trinity College Dublin (TCD), one PR disaster – being forced by its students to divest from Israeli companies... Read more »

MEDIA CLIMATE CALL

February 22, 2024

In recent years, the Business Post had developed a reputation as a broadly progressive publication on many hot-button issues, including climate and environment.... Read more »

ANNUAL 2023: MONEYBAGS – WHO WILL OVERCOME THE INTEREST RATE AND GEOPOLITICAL CHALLENGES IN 2024?

November 15, 2023

AFTER A decade of unprecedented low interest rates, the market is not finding it easy to cope with the very hefty 5% increase... Read more »

O’LEARY TAKES OFF AGAIN

November 2, 2023

THE 2019 claim by Mick O’Leary that he was winding down his huge string of jumps horses and quitting going racing looks a... Read more »

FARRELLY’S PROFILE TAKES OFF

August 24, 2023

WHILE MICK O’Leary’s almost comical levels of indignation continue to feature regularly in the media, one person who might be enjoying the pantomime... Read more »

RYANAIR BOOSTS PROFITS ON FOOT OF HIKED FARES

June 1, 2023

MONEYBAGS HAS previously queried Mick O’Leary’s near obsession with growing Ryanair’s capacity for the sake of growing it, rather that seeking to optimise... Read more »

O’LEARY’S NAMING GAME

April 6, 2023

MICK O’LEARY performed a U-turn last year by investing in some young national hunt horses to be trained by Willie Mullins, one of... Read more »

THE MORANS CROSS THEIR FINGERS

March 8, 2023

WITH CHELTENHAM kicking off next week, all those big-spending owners will again battle it out to bag even the one winner that might... Read more »

MICHAEL O’LEARY ON THE BUSES

February 22, 2023

IN DECEMBER last, Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary made one of his trademark outbursts, this time with a target that, even by his standards, was... Read more »

ELLIOTT’S STRATEGY

February 9, 2023

MICK O’LEARY’S re-engagement as an owner of national hunt horses has been welcomed by trainers and breeders and, given the significant clear out... Read more »

ANNUAL 2022: MONEYBAGS – WHICH COMPANIES ARE SET TO THRIVE IN TROUBLED 2023?

November 16, 2022

AGAINST THE background of soaring interest rates, rocketing energy prices and the effect on supply lines of increasing tensions between the US and... Read more »

PROFILE: WILLIE MULLINS

October 6, 2022

THERE ARE few personalities who have ever matched the dominance in Irish sport of the current number one national hunt trainer, Willie Mullins.... Read more »

O’LEARY SHAKING UP OWNERS’ CONTEST

September 22, 2022

AS HE does every year, Michael O’Leary offloaded a good few of his lesser-performing horses at a Goffs UK sale recently. The Ryanair... Read more »

TIME FOR A CHANGE IN THE RYANAIR COCKPIT

July 28, 2022

MICK O’LEARY appears to be flying high. Amidst the chaos of other airlines cancelling flights and many airports failing to manage the inevitable... Read more »