The story of how the Ryan family came back from the brink, and, in the process, brought low-fare airlines to the world is little known. Yes, people know about Ryanair, which transformed travel in Europe. But there is much more.

The family took the Ryanair template and rolled it out in five other low-fare airlines – making flying affordable to billions of people on four continents.

This is the story that became the book Aer Dogs. It is, of course, about Tony Ryan, who died in 2007, and the Ryan family. But it is also about other families few have heard of – names such as Carragher, Doherty, Maxwell, Mulvihill, Mason, Goode and Blaney.

These were the so-called “Aer Dogs”, people who took the Ryanair spirit and exported it around the world and the story is told by Tom Lyon’s in Aer Dogs, just recently published.

Aran Island Discs is an Irish themed podcast hosted by Rossa McDermott

Each episode features a guest who is invited to imagine themselves on the Aran Islands—a symbolic place evoking rugged beauty and Irish cultural heritage—and explore the soundtrack of their life. Guests choose songs that have shaped their personal journeys, sparking conversations about key moments, memories, and influences in their life.

The series is recorded at Dublin South Podcast Studios in Dundrum, produced and edited by Peter Rice, and distributed via platforms Acast, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. .

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