{"id":160550,"date":"2025-11-03T14:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/160550\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T14:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:30:10","slug":"michael-oleary-attacks-daa-over-departure-of-ceo-kenny-jacobs-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/160550\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael O\u2019Leary attacks DAA over departure of CEO Kenny Jacobs \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryanair boss Michael O\u2019Leary launched a stinging attack on Dublin and Cork Airport operator DAA <\/a>over the imminent departure of chief executive, Kenny Jacobs<\/a>, a former Ryanair executive.<\/p>\n

Speaking as the company announced results for the first half of its financial year, Mr O\u2019Leary said the public sector needed people like Mr Jacobs, who had been \u201cfired\u201d because he upset civil servants.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re going to hire some pudding whose particular talent will be not upsetting Fingal County Council or the morons in the Department of Transport,\u201d Mr O\u2019Leary said.<\/p>\n

Mr Jacobs is due to leave the airport authority in January after a rift with the DAA board over his management style.<\/p>\n

The board and Mr Jacobs have agreed a deal following mediation that will see the airports chief receive an exit package of close to \u20ac1 million, it has ben reported. It is understood that this does not include legal fees, which will be met separately by the company.<\/p>\n

However, seven weeks on, the money remains subject to approval from Minister for Transport Darragh O\u2019Brien<\/a> and Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t agree with a lot of what Kenny Jacobs did,\u201d Mr O\u2019Leary said on Monday. \u201cHe has wasted \u20ac200 million building a stupid tunnel going nowhere. As a result, charges at Dublin Airport are about to rise about 10 per cent a year for the next four years, completely destroying the cost competitiveness of Dublin Airport. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut to fire the chief executive and pay him off with what looks like about \u20ac1.2 million because he\u2019s upset couple of bureaucrats in Fingal County Council<\/a>, who are useless, and, much more importantly, because he\u2019s upset a couple of bureaucrats in the failed Department of Transport<\/a> shouldn\u2019t be the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

He described Mr Jacobs as \u201csomebody with elbows out\u201d who \u201ccalls out the failure of the planning system or the abject failure of the civil servants in the failed Department of Finance\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose are the kind of people we need in the public sector. Not stooges whose only job is not upsetting ministers, civil servants or county councillors. It just goes to show the shambles that exists within the public sector in Ireland and why Ireland can\u2019t get anything f**king done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryanair boss Michael O\u2019Leary launched a stinging attack on Dublin and Cork Airport operator DAA over the imminent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,38997,2914,24001,18,10410,19,17,26736,40609,1843,623],"class_list":{"0":"post-160550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-daa","10":"tag-darragh-o-brien","11":"tag-department-of-transport","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-fingal-county-council","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-jack-chambers","17":"tag-kenny-jacobs","18":"tag-michael-oleary","19":"tag-ryanair"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115486249625802085","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}