Ryanair boss gets pied in Brussels

Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary got a rude welcome in Brussels on Thursday when he received two cream pies to the face while standing next to a cardboard cutout of EU chief Ursula von der Leyen.

The tarts were landed by two women environmental activists as O’Leary was holding a one-man protest outside the European Commission against repeated air traffic controllers’ strikes in the EU impacting his low-cost Irish airline, Europe’s biggest by passenger numbers.