Tony Ryan’s turbulent flight path

reviewed this week: Ryan – A Legacy, RTE One. Escape to the Wild, Channel 4.

Tony Ryan was profiled in Ryan – A Legacy (RTE One). Picture: RTE
Tony Ryan was profiled in Ryan – A Legacy (RTE One). Picture: RTE

What goes moo, gives milk and links Denis O’Brien and Michael O’Leary? Ryanair boss O’Leary has a prize Aberdeen Angus herd down in Gigginstown. And when in 1982, O’Brien started work as PA for Ryanair’s founder Tony Ryan, he was sent off to buy an entire herd of cows for the boss’s estate. And him a “city slicker” too.

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