The 5 Catholic Worker pacifists who in February 2003 disarmed a US Navy warplane at Shannon airport in the ‘neutral’ Republic of Ireland have just endured their third trial for 10 counts of criminal damage and were today acquitted on all counts. Their principal defence was that they had ‘lawful excuse’ to damage the plane, […]
I've written previously of my admiration for Australia's man-in-London, human rights giant Geoffrey Robertson QC. There's another Australian member of the bar I adore: that cultured man of compassion, the erudite and articulate Mr Julian Burnside, who, in and beyond his impressive legal practice in Melbourne, works tirelessly to promote human rights. Despite a large […]
Norman Aisbett wrote a terrific profile of Australian-Irish pacifist Ciaron O’Reilly in the ‘Weekend Extra’ section of The West Australian newspaper on 20 May 2006 (which unfortunately is not available online, but I quote it below). He describes how in 2003 O’Reilly and four fellow activists broke into a hangar at Shannon Airport near Limerick […]
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