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O’Leary to grill Ryan over Shannon LNG planning intervention on minister’s visit to Ryanair HQ

Today’s meeting will mark the first time that Eamon Ryan will meet with Ryanair in his almost four-year tenure as transport minister

The meeting comes amid a very public feud between Ryan and Michael O’Leary, Ryanair’s chief executive, who is a staunch advocate of Dublin Airport's application to increase the Dublin Airport passenger cap by 25 per cent on an annual basis. Picture: Gareth Chaney

Ryanair is limbering up to welcome Eamon Ryan to its Airside offices on Thursday, with the airline set to grill the minister for transport over his lack of intervention on the Dublin Airport passenger cap row.

In a statement late Wednesday evening, Ryanair said it will ask the Green Party leader why he won’t intervene in the planning process to raise the 32 million annual passenger limit “when he had no problem intervening in the ...