According to the European Commission’s official website, Michael O’Leary once represented Ireland in flower arranging and is irresistible to women – really?
Michael O’Leary is probably best known as the owner of one of the most successful airlines in the world or as the outspoken businessman who has entertained so many of us with his often hilarious remarks. But did you know he was “born in a stable” and “represented Ireland internationally at bog snorkelling and flower arranging”?
Well, according to the official website of the European Commission it’s all true. The website has a list of biographies on the speakers who were at the Innovation Convention 2011 in Brussels and O’Leary’s reads as follows:
“Michael O’Leary has served as Ryanair CEO since 1993. Born in a stable in 1961, he was a boy genius, who excelled both academically and at sports.
“Having represented Ireland internationally at bog snorkelling and flower arranging, he graduated from Trinity College in Dublin as soon as they could get rid of him.
“He then became another boring KPMG accountant until divine inspiration sentenced to him to a life of penal servitude in the airline business.”
Is this one of the best ‘alterations’ to someone’s personal information we’ve seen since Wikipedia claimed Tony Blair was a tutu-wearing ballet dancer? Or is that actually what O’Leary wanted his bio to say on the site?
The last line reads: “It is widely known that women find him irresistible.”
Maybe he did write it so…
