We read:
"A former Miss World has been awarded £70,000 in damages after suing no-frills carrier Ryanair for defamation.
The case centred on a press release posted on Ryanair’s website in November 2008 in response to remarks Miss Davison, 27, made the previous day in a newspaper.
Asked what she thought of the lack of any Irish women in Ryanair’s 2009 charity calendar of bikini-clad cabin crew, she said: ‘If I was (organising) it, I would have made sure Irish women were involved because it’s an Irish charity and Irish fundraising.’
The airline’s release said the comments by Miss Davison, who was crowned Miss World in 2003, ‘bordered on racism and demonstrated an elitist attitude against Ryanair’s international cabin crew’.
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3 comments:
What does "Irish women" mean? That they have an Irish passport? - That they live in Ireland (for a certain period of time)? - That they work for an Irish company (so Ryan Air employees would qualify under that definition) ?
It seems this airline has now learned to be more careful in their use of the word racism. That they were right obviously means nothing.
By contrast, here in the US, whenever you accuse anyone or anything of racism, you can expect to get a boat-load of cash. Yes, it's called a settlement, but in reality, it's just old-fashioned extortion.
Wouldn't a better answer have been, "I'm thrilled that Irish air hostesses have the intelligence and self-respect not to demean themselves with participating in a soft-porn calendar"???
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