Neutral My Arse!

national | miscellaneous | news report Saturday February 08, 2003 14:49 by Terry - Galway Eco. Soc. terry at fuck-the-system dot com

Anti-War Protest greets Bertie to Galway.

The exclusive Ardilaun Hotel in Galway was graced with the presence of our glorious leader Bertie Ahern on Friday. There to open an ‘information evening’ on behalf of the European Space Agency.

With haste D-I-Y placards were produced and a small group of protesters assembled at the main gates in opposition to the use of Shannon airport as a pit stop for the U.S. war machine. Simultaneously three protestors penetrated the ‘ring of steel’ security cordon surrounding Dubya’s poodle, and lay in ambush. (o.k. less ring of steel more like Shannon before they put the army in).

With clockwork precision the by now very dirty hippies (given as they had been lying in mud for the best part of an hour) moved in as the red carpet was unrolled for Bertie, and gave him a good barracking as he waddled into the plush hotel.

In other Galway news a very well attended meeting for organising the peace movement was held in NUIG on Thursday night….as well as mobilising for Dublin on the 15th, there will be a Galway weapons inspection on Friday the 14th and a peace camp during the week.