I am a regular on the STN-LBC route (though I stopped using Ryanair for a while after that rather scary incident). It is quite common at LBC to have Stansted flights land on 07 and take off on 25 (straight in - straight out), and I appreciate that in the right wind conditions this isn't much of an issue even on a runway that is only 1800m long. (Though of course you always give up some of your safety margin if you choose to land with a tailwind...)

On this particular occasion we were coming in very fast and very high - we were still above the control tower when we crossed the threshold, we touched down very fast and very hard a long way down the runway, and we came to a stop on the 25 numbers. There was a lot of gasping, and a collective sigh of relief when we came to a stop. The surface wind at the time was 250/05, so it was a straight tailwind.

This may well have been a case of a one-off pilot error, but this is an error that was entirely avoidable.