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Inside the boardroom: Michael O’Leary and Eamon Ryan go head-to-head over Dublin Airport cap

The Ryanair boss has said 20 planes planned for Ireland will go to other countries and air fares will rise by 50 per cent if the issue is not resolved

Michael O’Leary: ‘His own aviation policy aims to grow traffic, grow connectivity, and grow the contribution of aviation to jobs in the economy. And that's what we're trying to do at Ryanair’. Picture: Bryan Meade

Shortly after 4pm on Thursday afternoon, Eamon Ryan and his team took their seats at the boardroom table in Ryanair’s headquarters in Swords.

Sitting opposite him was one of the transport minister’s fiercest critics, Michael O’Leary.

It was the first time in Ryan’s four years as transport minister that he had held a formal meeting with the Ryanair boss, and O’Leary wasted little time getting stuck into the main issue both men had come to ...