“I FEEL happier about the whole thing than I have done for months,” said AIB shareholder Gary Keogh last night, just hours after he had soiled both the ego and the suit of bank chairman Dermot Gleeson by throwing eggs during the egm.

Mr Keogh (65) said he had planned the egg-throwing for some weeks having grown angry over the way shareholders were treated.

“Nothing ever happens. The same people stand up and make speeches and the board just sneers,” he told The Irish Times.

Mr Keogh said he had never been involved in shareholder activism before, but had recently gained the strength to display his anger after receiving a new kidney, leaving behind years of dialysis.

“I think I got Che Guevara’s kidney,” he said, regretting missing AIB chief executive Eugene Sheehy by “a centimetre” with his egg-throwing.

“Always aim for the body,” he said, noting that victims always move their heads before the missile reaches its target.

His particular anger was, however, reserved for Mr Gleeson, whose microphone and suit both sustained a direct eggy hit.

“You couldn’t get a worse combination,” said Mr Keogh, referring to Mr Gleeson’s double career as both banker and lawyer.

Now retired, Mr Keogh worked in retail for many years, spending some of his career at Dublin department store Arnotts.

He has lost €18,000 on an investment in AIB in recent times, a fund he had hoped to use as part of his pension.

“I just don’t like the way these people treat us,” he said. “I’m paying their wages.”

The response to his attack was striking, he said, having spoken on RTÉ’s Liveline immediately after the event.

So should other public figures watch out?

“It was the first time; it won’t be the last,” said Mr Keogh last night.