Michael O’Leary has stuck the boot into RTÉ and the government

Strong words...

The Ryanair boss has said the current Dáil is the "worst assembly of half-wits and lunatics." O'Leary made this statement at a briefing organised by Fianna Fáil T.D, Robert Troy. He went on to say that Irish people need to take more responsibility for who they are electing according to The Irish Times. "We, when given the opportunity, chose to vote in the worst assembly of half-wits and lunatics," O'Leary said. "In the worst of the property recession when the property developers had bankrupted us and the banks were bankrupt, who did we elect? Mick Wallace." The Ryanair boss also went on to say that he felt that RTE should be nationalised, stating that, “all you get is diatribe coming out of unions that passes for news. If you look at the BBC, they don’t have industrial correspondents topping the news." “They are actually dealing with the news, so I think the best thing that could happen RTÉ is to privatise it, break it up and sell it and allow it to compete openly and fairly with Newstalk and other private sector media." No institution was safe from O'Leary's criticisms today, with Irish Rail the next to feel his wrath. He said Irish Rail, which is in serious financial difficulty, was “doomed” unless it is privatised.

"It needs to bring down rail fares to really low levels," according to O'Leary. "If I can fly people across Europe for €9.99, why is Irish Rail charging €30 or €40 to get from Dublin to Cork?"

An interesting point...