Bare-chested protester disrupts Ryanair AGM

A bare-chested protester has ambushed Michael O'Leary at the Ryanair AGM in Dublin.

'Rob Mac', who had 'Exposing O'Leary's Lies' painted on his chest, has disrupted the meeting at Dublin Airport to raise climate change issues with the Ryanair boss.

He is calling for more taxes to be levelled at the airline industry in a bid to reduce air travel.

Never turning down publicity, Michael O'Leary gladly engaged with him and dismissed the idea that increased taxes would curb environmental problems and branded the claims as "rubbish".

Michael O’Leary later said: "I hope next year instead of a semi-naked bloke, they’ll send a semi-naked girl to the AGM. She would probably make as little sense as this guy this morning, but at least she’d be more attractive.

"Clearly maths wasn’t this guy’s strongest suit, given that Ryanair carries 60 million passengers, not the 12 million he claimed. Perhaps they should call themselves the 'plain stupid' instead of the 'plane mad' group. Some of these eco-nuts (who advocate even more tax on air travel) are not the sharpest knives in the drawer.

"We are sending him one of our five million €5 tickets which he can avail of to travel from his home in Clare on one of Ryanair’s routes from Shannon. Since clearly, after one of the wettest Irish Summers on record, he needs a little break.

"We are also sending him a copy of the European Union’s Environmental Agency report which confirms that air transport accounts for less than 2% of Europe’s CO2 emissions and is neither the cause of, nor the solution to, global warming."