Margaret O'Shaughnessy returned to Foynes County Limerick after she was married and left her job working in banking. She was in search of a project. After she successfully helped to build the local sports complex, a museum seemed like the logical next step! This extraordinary woman and her remarkable journey towards creating a one of a kind aviation museum is the subject of the final episode in season 1 of the Flying Irishman. Margaret O'Shaugnessy has more than a few stories to tell about this very unusual adventure and our host, Jarlath Regan gives her the time and space to tell them. (Note: This episode was recorded over a landline during the worst days of the pandemic.)

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How do you create and launch a new airline from scratch during a pandemic? Jarlath's guest today might be the only person on the planet who can give you a full answer to that question. Conor McCarthy tracks his own journey from leaving school without a leaving certificate to climbing the ladder of management at AerLingus to becoming the CEO of the new kid on the block, Emerald Airlines. In this lively long form discussion Conor has the time to reflect on everything he has experienced in this storied 45 years career in aviation.

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Kenny Jacobs joins Jarlath for a conversation about his life and times in the aviation business. Jarlath looks into the work Kenny did to revive the public image of Ryanair and how one simple mantra seemed to capture the imagination of the public, regulators, staff, clients and customers.

From Moneysupermarket to Tesco, Accenture and Procter & Gamble, Kenny Jacobs has worked on every kind of marketing strategy there is to offer. What was it about the Ryanair job that captured his imagination? Together with Jarlath, he reflects on how a love of his school days influenced his future in flying.

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Jarlath's guest in this episode is Tippaero CEO Donal Boylan. Together they discuss his journey around the world in the business of flying, the challenges he has faced, the cultures and opportunities aviation has opened up to him and much more. Donal has spent years running a jet-leasing company, his own VIP plane business and a fledgling oil exploration company. He is yet another Guinness Peat Aviation (GPA) alumnus who speaks fondly of his time there. He also set up Dartry Aviation in 1998, which specialised in buying old plane stock with out-of-date systems, converting and reselling them.

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The Flying Irishman takes its first deep dive into the new world of pilotless flight and drone technology with the CEO of Avtrain Julie Garland. A former barrister and aircraft engineer, Julie's personal story is as astonishing as the technology she champions. At Avtrain, the company she created to encourage drone operations and keep the skies safe through the training and certification of pilots, she works tirelessly to educate the general public on the use of these extraordinary crafts. The number of drones flying globally is sky rocketing with every passing day. Whether you have seen a recreational flyer or are more interested in becoming a professional drone pilot or operator, Julie Garland and her team has all the knowledge and experience for you to reach your goals. In this episode she talks to Jarlath about the challenges she has faced along the way and what she sees as the future of pilotless flight in Ireland and beyond.

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Michael Lillis navigated the corridors power in Geneva as Ireland's youngest ambassador to the U.N. and as a chief advisor to the late Garret Fitzgerald before finding his way into aviation. Today on The Flying Irishman, he sits down for the first time with Jarlath Regan to talk about his journey and the extraordinary career he has made for himself in aircraft leasing. In this wide ranging conversation, Mick as he is known to his friends, opens up about what he believes is the future of the EU post-Brexit and the incredible story of how his meeting with Éamon de Valera led to him being "sent down" to work with Charlie Haughey.

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Jarlath meets Eamonn Brennan, the Director General of EUROCONTROL - the intergovernmental European organisation that manages the European Air Traffic Network. Normally Eamonn would handle over 11 million flights during each calendar year but when he meets Jarlath, the world is upside down. Together they first examine the state of aviation during the pandemic, winning the public's trust back and finally his own journey into aviation and management style. Like so many other guests in the Flying Irishman series, aviation was not his first choice occupation. Jarlath burrows into what the exact attraction of aviation is for this Irishman controlling the skies above us.

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Wikipedia might tell you that "Colm McLoughlin is the Irish businessman, and the executive vice chairman and CEO of Dubai Duty Free an airport retailer with a turnover of US$2.029 billion in 2019", but in this conversation with Jarlath Regan we learn what happened before all that success. What brought this man to move to Dubai in 1983 to help create this retail empire? Recorded midway through the first wave of COVID it gives a remarkable insight into how he helped the company navigate these treacherous waters and how much his Irish roots have influenced this remarkable success.

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The journey of Alan Joyce from being raised in Dublin to running the biggest brand in Australia is a fascinating one. In this episode of the Flying Irishman he opens up to Jarlath about the finer details of his story.

As CEO of Qantas airlines, Alan Joyce turned around the airline from losing $20m per week to profits of over a billion per year. Alan explains how he wrestled with the tough decision make 5,000 redundancies as well as revealing the incredible stroke of luck in the midst of it all which resulted in cancer diagnosis. From the time he was attacked by dogs while live on T.V. to why Irish people are better-suited to Australia, this episode really has it all. 

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Over the last 30 years Declan Ryan has been involved with creating multiple low cost airlines around the world. From Ryanair to Viva Aerobus, Tiger Airways in Singapore, Allegiant Air in the US, his instinct and ability in both investment and business are beyond doubt. In the first episode of this new series looking into Ireland's impact on the world of aviation, comedian Jarlath Regan meets the quiet Tipperary man who prefers to stay in the background. In many ways he exemplifies the quiet dominance of the aviation industry by the Irish. It doesn’t stop at CEOs of the major airlines across the world - it extends to central control of the industry, governing bodies, regulators, ground staff, manufacturing and the airports themselves. The Irish own respect in the business and across this series of podcast interviews, you will learn why. 

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