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Peace Activists arrested at Shannon Airport this morning

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Wednesday September 04, 2002 10:13author by Joe Sheehanauthor email jsheehan at subdimension dot com

Eoin Dubsky and Tim Hourigan of Refueling Peace were arrested this morning at Shannon Airport, they were arrested under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act for Defacing an Aircraft. Mr Dubsky took a can of flourescent orange paint to a USAF Hercules plane, wishing to be accountable for his actions he phoned airport police at 4.50 to inform them of his actions. Both Tim and Eoin were arrested at 5.20am, neither has yet been charged but at time of writing both were still being held by the Gardai without charge

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