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Well-known actor and anti-war activist Martin Sheen today condemned the Irish government's facilitation of U.S. warplanes and troops at Shannon Airport. Sheen, who has starred as fictional U.S. president Jay Bartlett in the series 'The West Wing' as well as the films 'Apocalypse Now' and 'Badlands' was receiving and Honorary Arts doctorate in NUIG. He is due to start studying in Galway at the beginning of the new Uni. year.
'President Bartlett' retiring to new role at NUIG
by Frank McNally (Irish Times)
The Government should not believe anything the US says about its use of Shannon airport, because the White House is controlled by "a bunch of gangsters", The West Wing actor Martin Sheen has claimed. But the man famous for playing a fictional US president admits he may have to tone down his opposition to the real one during his next major role, as a full-time student in NUI Galway, writes Frank McNally.
Speaking after an honorary arts doctorate was conferred on him by the National University of Ireland yesterday, Sheen (65) said he would become the "oldest undergraduate" at NUIG later this year when he begins a course in philosophy and English literature
Read the full article:
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/front/2006/0408/231489....html
Sheen's Movies, etc.
http://www.moviemail-online.co.uk/stars/1414
Sheen's Presidential Pardon of Pitstop Ploughshares:
http://www.indymedia.ie/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=49840
Sheen's activism
http://martinsheen.net/id91.html