DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ryanair (>> Ryanair Holdings plc) will refer rival Lufthansa's (>> Deutsche Lufthansa) 210 million euro (188.38 million pounds)deal to buy large parts of insolvent Air Berlin (>> Air Berlin Plc) - a process it has previously described as "a stitch-up" - to European Union competition authorities.
"We will be referring the matter to the EU competition authority in due course," a Ryanair spokesman said in an emailed statement after the deal was announced, declining further comment.
(Reporting by Padraic Halpin and Conor Humphries, editing by David Evans)