Michael O’Leary was in combative form at a press conference on Thursday afternoon, delivering a blistering critique of the Dublin Airport Authority’s proposed €5.6 billion investment programme for Dublin Airport. Armed with a 10-page PowerPoint presentation and excerpts from the DAA’s 640-page submission to the Irish Aviation Authority, O’Leary spent more than 20 pages attempting to dismantle the case for the airport’s planned five-year expansion programme.  “No new runways. No new terminals. In fact they won’t add any meaningful capacity to Dublin Airport. Yet they will manage to, if they are permitted to, spend €5.6 billion. This is mad. It…

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