Ray ManaghA Brussels-based EU executive, with ties to Ireland, has failed in a bid to legally force Ryanair pay him compensation for a missed flight just over a year ago. In his appeal to the Circuit Court, Murphy claimed Ryanair had wrongly failed to facilitate him at the Brussels airport. Ms Jessica Brady, Ryanair’s ground operations front-of-house procedures and training manager, told the court that a passenger could not check in 40 minutes before departure. “Once the scheduled departure time minus 40 minutes closure of the check-in is triggered, that process cannot be restarted,” she said. Mr Murphy is head of programme at Inter Pares Parliaments in Partnership, office of International IDEA to the EU, Avenue des Arts, Brussels.

Source: The Herald January 16, 2026 21:33 UTC