Unusual blockade a bit fishy

A media ban at the Ryanair agm suggests more than attention seeking

Dressing as the Pope or a highway bandit, hiring a tank, posing beside a Winston Churchill lookalike: it’s all in a day’s work for Michael O’Leary.

There are few things he hasn’t done to generate publicity for Ryanair. As a one-man marketing machine, he has been incredibly successful. Colourful quotes flow easily, and he has provided plenty of them.

Remarkable, then, that an edict went out from Ryanair HQ last week banning the ...