Ryanair Ltd. (ISEQ: RYA, LSE: RYA, NASDAQ: RYAAY) is an Irish low-cost airline. Its headquarters is located at Dublin Airport with its primary operational bases at Dublin and London Stansted Airports.

Ryanair operates over 290 Boeing 737-800 aircraft. The airline has been characterised by rapid expansion, a result of the deregulation of the aviation industry in Europe in 1997 and the success of its low-cost business model.

Since its establishment in 1985, Ryanair has grown from a small airline flying a short hop from Waterford to London into one of Europe's largest carriers. After the rapidly growing airline went public in 1997, the money raised was used to expand the airline into a pan-European carrier. Revenues have risen from €231 million in 1998, to €1843 million in 2003 and €3013 million in 2010. Similarly net profits have increased from €48 million to €339 million over the same period.

Ryanair was founded in 1985 by Christopher Ryan, Liam Lonergan (owner of Irish travel agent Club Travel) and Irish businessman Tony Ryan (after whom the company is named), founder of Guinness Peat Aviation.^{[dead link]} The airline began with a 14-seat Embraer Bandeirante turboprop aircraft, flying between Waterford and Gatwick Airport with the aim of breaking the duopoly on London-Ireland flights at that time, held by British Airways and Aer Lingus.

Eamonn Holmes (born 3 December 1959) is a Northern Irishjournalist and broadcaster. He is known for his work on UK television, notably presenting GMTV and This Morning. He is married to TV presenter Ruth Langsford.

Holmes is a former pupil of Holy Family Primary School in Belfast and St Malachy's College on the Antrim Road in Belfast. He then studied journalism at the Belfast College of Business Studies.

Holmes worked for a business journal before joining UTV, where he hosted Farming Ulster before becoming a presenter on regional news magazine Good Evening Ulster.

Holmes later moved on to network presenting the 1980s daytime programme Open Air on BBC1.

Holmes started at GMTV in 1993, after appearing in 1992 as an earnest police constable in Inspector Morse.

One infamous interview occurred when American illusionist David Blaine appeared on the show on 29 August 2001. Holmes cites this interview with Blaine as the most awkward moment of his professional career and one of TV's bloopers when he refused to speak and gave him the "evil eye".