We charge for checked-in bags not because we want your money, we just don't want your bloody checked-in bag! - Michael O'Leary

We're bright, we're well educated, Let's get up off our backsides now and go and create something postive for our kids.

This is not the bloody potato famine. We're sending people abroad now for a couple of years. These kids will get good experience and they will come back!

I respect pilots. If you sit in the cockpit of a plane flying four or five hundred miles an hour and landing in 40ft or 50ft of visibility, you have total respect. That doesn’t mean they don’t get very well paid for doing what is a very easy job. We are in an era now where the computer does most of the flying. They are very skilled professionals. But are they hard-worked? No.