Originally Posted by
WillTravel
The "place of birth" qualifier is available on a cached version of the Ryanair site, and was quoted at the previously listed link. If the cached version remains operational, you can see the same verbiage here:
http://tinyurl.com/2hwbsm
The question then is whether the cached version or the current version was in effect when the original poster attempted to fly.
I tried to follow your tinyurl link and got a "site not available" error message.
As I pointed out earlier, the current version does not say anything about a requirement to have been born within the EU or EEA. If there was such a requirement in the past (and it would appear that there was) then I suspect it was removed for a good reason - it was probably deemed to be illegal under race discrimination laws as the vast majority of British citizens born outside the EU/EEA are Black or Asian.