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Govt to hand over documents relating to Shannon

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Wednesday January 22, 2003 01:24author by garry - global action ucd

Dubsky High Court trial success

From RTE news: The High Court has ordered the Government to hand over documents relating to its decisions to allow foreign military aircraft to overfly Irish airspace and to land and refuel at Irish airports.

From RTE news: The High Court has ordered the Government to hand over documents relating to its decisions to allow foreign military aircraft to overfly Irish airspace and to land and refuel at Irish airports.

Mr Justice McKechnie made the order in an action taken by student activist Eoin Dubsky, who is claiming that the permission is unconstitutional and amounts to paraticipation in war.

The judge ordered the government to discolose the documents within four weeks.

The government opposed the application, arguing that some decisions were 'not written' and that the documents sought were neither relevant to nor necessary for the action.

Mr Dubsky took the proceedings while on bail on charges relating to the damaging of a US military aircraft at Shannon airport.

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