Don’t try this in public
April 06, 2014
Speechwriting, sex, and the CEO: Ryanair boss bollockses it up again.
The only thing worse than a humorless CEO is a CEO who thinks heโs funny. Notoriously tone-deaf Ryanair chief Michael OโLeary was eventually forced to apologize for having opened a speech to the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly thusly: โAddressing such an august body as this reminds me much of making love to the Queen of Englandโyou know it is a great honor, you’re just not sure how much pleasure it is going to be.”