Plane Mad

{{Short description|Irish direct action group}}

Plane Mad was an Irish direct action group that campaigned against the aviation industry's contribution to climate change for a short period in the late 2000s. It was established in 2007, and was a sister group to the British group Plane Stupid. It was a non-hierarchical organisation.

Its four main demands were:

• An end to airport expansion
• An end to subsidies for internal flights
• A ban on advertising of aviation
• A tax on aviation fuel

In September 2008, it interrupted the Ryanair AGM at Dublin Airport, during CEO Michael O'Leary's speech.{{cite web |url=http://www.clarepeople.com/index.php/This-Weeks-News/clare-protestors-plane-mad-over-air-pollution.html |title=Clare protestors ‘plane mad’ over air pollution {{!}} This Weeks News |website=www.clarepeople.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081002021600/http://www.clarepeople.com/index.php/This-Weeks-News/clare-protestors-plane-mad-over-air-pollution.html |archive-date=2008-10-02}} {{Cite web|url=http://www.foe.ie/news/2008/09/23/climate-activists-disrupt-ryanair-agm/|title=Climate Activists disrupt Ryanair AGM|date=14 March 2004}} In November 2008, it interrupted a speech by Green Party Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government John Gormley in north Dublin in protest at the planned expansion of Dublin Airport.{{Cite web|url=http://www.fingal-independent.ie/news/group-go-plane-mad-at-minister-during-speech-1539817.html|title = Group go Plane Mad at minister during speech}}