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 Saturday January 18, 2003 17:33 by Daithi
 Digest of Shannon protest breaking news from other sites RTE and the commercial media have been reporting on the Shannon demonstration today; here's some of their reports so far (as of 4.30 pm Irish time): Online.ie/Examiner breaking news quotes Richard Boyd Barrett and John Gormley before the march in an article entitled "Crowds swell for Shannon protest" (http://www.online.ie/news/latest_irish/viewer.adp?article=1929899), with more recent reports at http://www.online.ie/news/latest_irish/viewer.adp?article=1929955 and http://www.online.ie/news/latest_irish/viewer.adp?article=1929948. RTE has updated its article a number of times and are currently reporting a Garda estimate of 1,500 protestors. Changes are being made on an ongoing basis to http://www.rte.ie/news/2003/0118/shannon.html and the main news site has a photograph from the demonstration. Unison/Independent: I can't seem to be able to log in today but their front page has the same estimate of 1,500. No photographs, unless they are in the logged-in section. Many morning newspapers here in North America are carrying a Reuters report that quotes Adam Conway from the peace camp in the third paragraph as part of a global round-up of anti-war protests. See for example http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10349-2003Jan18.html. Finally, the Irish Times reported at 4pm that "more than 1000" protesters were "expected" to arrive at the airport. This story looks as if it hasn't been updated in a while, though there is a good photo on the breaking news index. http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2003/0118/breaking5.htm |
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Jump To Comment: 2 1I know it might sound time-consuming / silly but I think at future demos we should perform a head count. Organise people into groups of 250 or 500. Let's prove we have the numbers.
I'm dumbfounded at "Garda estimates" of 1,500 people at the march, when there had to be at least 3,000 people demonstrating at Shannon. Even Michael D commented on this during his speech. It's not too surprising that the authorities don't want the exact figures to be publicised.
It was a great day, hardly any rain, and a lovely evening walk back. It was stirring to see so many people turn up to prove that we're not a nation of armchair protesters. I'd say the Feb 15th demo in Dublin will be a big one - let's hope that war doesn't occur beforehand...