Shannon Five Remanded Until Friday
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Tuesday February 04, 2003 00:13
by Black Frank
No Assault Charges - surprise surprise.
The five Catholic Worker activists arrested at Shannon appeared at Tulla Courthouse, Co. Clare tonight and were remanded in custody to Limerick prison. They are next in court in Ennis at 11am Friday 7th Feb. They were charged with criminal damage and all pleaded not guilty - There were NO assault charges. For more details, see link - or not, s'up to you
Comments (5 of 5)
Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5It's obvious they're guilty. They should be charged. No question about it whatsoever. They've put the jobs and livelihood of of quite a few people in the Shannon region in jeopardy, and have achieved NOTHING, apart from making themselves (a couple of posh knobheads) feel better about themselves.
I'm sure their rich Daddys will be able to pay any fines that result from the whole incident, before calling down to collect and drive them back to Clontarf/other rich estates from where they came.
uh, Ken, you fool,
I think you will find that none of these Ploughshares activists are rich, and that none of them will be paying fines or getting thier parents to pay the fines.
Thye are fighting to protect ordinary people from the wars of the rich, and they will refuse to pay a bloody cent to the government, preferring to sit in jail than to cooperate with an unjust system. And I think a lot of people will agree that even if a few military personell lose their jobs over this, that is nothing compared to the lives of thousands of people who WILL DIE if this war goes ahead
Well done all of you. It is time for the Irish people to wake up to the travesty of Shannon being used by a foreign power to transport weapons of mass destruction, intended to be used aggressively to attack a third country which has in fact never attacked them, nor is likely to in the foreseeable future.
(See any interview by former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, for instance - eg
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,351165,00.html
or
http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/03/19/ritter/index_np.html)
Does Irish neutrality mean anything? Cannot the government be challenged in the courts over allowing this use of Irish soil?
John Lynch
4/2/03
todays indo continues to claim that a garda was assaulted. perhaps the five could sue for libel?
Ciaron's second letter from jail
"From Protest to Resistance"
http://www.indymedia.ie/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=29551
Ciaron's first letter from jail
"The Action was Beautiful"
http://www.indymedia.ie/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=28489
Statement of the action with more info
http://www.geocities.com/londoncatholicworker
email: pitstop_ploughshares@hotmail.com
Send individual letters of support to:
Ciaron O'Reilly
Deirdre Clancy
Karen Fallon
Damien Moran
Nuin Dunlop
c/- Shannon Peace House
19 Inis Ealga, Shannon, County Clare, Ireland.
(jails only accept letters to individual prisoners)
www.geocities.com/londoncatholicworker
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