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Irish people are not at all impressed with the Ryanair cheap seat sale

The €19.85 seat sale wasn’t all it was cracked up to be.

YESTERDAY, RYANAIR ANNOUNCED that it would be starting a sale of one million €19.85 flights on its website to celebrate its 30th anniversary.

(1985, get it?)

#Ryanair celebrates 30 years of low fares with 1 million €19.85 seat sale http://t.co/VS5lY0tf8P pic.twitter.com/pQRTwPgdgt
— Ryanair (@Ryanair) July 7, 2015

Ryanair / Twitter

Irish people were ridiculously excited about the whole thing.

Sure, we love a bargain.

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Ryanair are having a seat sale tomorrow.....hmmmmmm where do I want to go?
— Aoife (@AoifeG95_) July 7, 2015

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The sale commenced at midnight last night with tons of Irish people staying up to the wee hours to try avail of the offer.

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Ever person in Ireland right now, waiting for the #Ryanair flight sale. pic.twitter.com/uaHmOgq5fx
— Edel Walsh (@EdelWalsh_) July 7, 2015

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Unfortunately, it seems that everyone and their Mam was trying to access the site at the same time as it immediately crashed.

People were not best pleased.

oh @Ryanair, prob best not to spend so much money promoting this big sale if th'site crashes soon as folks start trying to throw € at it!
— Rachael Bleakley (@bleaklers) July 7, 2015

Rachael Bleakley / Twitter

Ballads were written.

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And terrible puns were made.

So the @Ryanair sale is off to a flying start (pardon the terrible pun!!) Site crashed with volume of traffic! #Ryanair #epicfail
— Ciamhie Mc Digital (@CiamhieMc) July 7, 2015

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Get it together, Ryanair!

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When people eventually made it on to the site, some were disappointed to find that their preferred route was not part of the sale.

D’oh.

Ryanair sale is a publicity stunt cant even get on the site for an hour and then find all the flights are to London! Absolute scam #Ryanair
— Clare Conlan (@ClareConlan1) July 8, 2015

Clare Conlan / Twitter

So eventually get onto @ryanair only to find dates I want to travel aren't on sale.....€300!!! Some sale.... :-@
— Sinead Nelson (@Shinners9) July 7, 2015

Sinead Nelson / Twitter

Looking at the website, it appears only a select number of routes from Dublin Airport are included in the offer.

Bristol, Brussels, London, Oslo, Newcastle and Cologne are among the destinations.

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