Inside Business Podcast: Will Ryanair’s cancellation crisis hurt the brand?

It has been a week of uncharacteristically poor PR management at Ryanair, with the airline forced to cancel 2 per cent of its flights over the next six weeks due to a mistake concerning the rostering of pilots.

On the latest Inside Business podcast, consumer affairs correspondent Conor Pope says Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary is clearly raging over the blunder but it is unlikely to have any lasting impact on the brand.

He is joined by business reporter Barry O’Halloran to discuss the crisis, which affects more than 300,000 of the airline’s customers.

In the second part of the show, business affairs correspondent Mark Paul hits the National Ploughing Championships in Screggan, Co Offaly, to take the pulse of Ireland's agriculture sector and find out what farmers are most concerned about with Brexit just around the corner.