Ireland – The Free

Women Attack another War Supply Plane”US MILITARY OUT OF NEUTRAL IRELAND.” Eng/Esp

BREAKING: Three women attacked a US war supply plane at Shannon Airport, spraying it with red paint and carrying an Irish flag that read “US MILITARY OUT OF NEUTRAL IRELAND” and closing down the airport

from Palestine Action/agraciablog/ The Ditch. on 18 May 25 via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-GYx Telegram t.me/thefreeonline/3190

The plane pictured following the protest. Looks like women entered putting sleeping bag over barbed wire

The attacked plane is an Omni Air N351AX contracted to the US military.
These planes are key purveyors of genocide in Palestine and must not be allowed to continue!

The three women, affiliated with Palestine Action Éire, claim the plane that landed at Shannon Airport is transporting troops and munitions to active warzones in the Middle East, including Israel and Yemen. They argue that this violates Ireland’s constitutional commitment to neutrality and breaches international law.

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Palestine Action Éire claim Action-

This action, “Operation Siren,” raises awareness of violations of neutrality and disrupts the war machine during Nakba Week, which commemorates the violent displacement of the Palestinian people from their homelands in 1948 by the settler colony.
The three women are calling for support in the fight against Irish complicity in the genocide. Support them at Shannon Airport and share this on your social media.

Once the security breach was detected, operations at the Co Clare airport were brought to a standstill.

The three heroic women were reportedly unhurt. They were charged with criminal damage to the illegal flight, but not with injuring the hospitalized policewoman, suggesting that she hurt herself while violently arresting the women.

Anti genocide sources called for an extension of such attacks to all airports and bases importing and handling the millions of tons of western donated armaments destined for Israeli massacres in Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Yemen.

«MILITARES ESTADOUNIDENSES FUERA DE IRLANDA NEUTRAL».

ÚLTIMA HORA: Tres mujeres atacaron un avión de guerra estadounidense en el aeropuerto de Shannon, rociando con pintura roja, portando una bandera irlandesa que decía «MILITARES ESTADOUNIDENSES FUERA DE IRLANDA NEUTRAL».
El avión atacado es un Omni Air N351AX contratado por el ejército estadounidense.
¡Estos aviones son proveedores clave del genocidio en Palestina y no se debe permitir que continúen!

Esta acción, «Operación Sirena», alerta sobre las violaciones de la neutralidad y desbarata la maquinaria bélica durante la Semana de la Nakba, que conmemora el violento desplazamiento del pueblo palestino de sus tierras natales en 1948 por parte de la colonia de colonos.

La organizacion Palestine Action Éire afirma que esto viola directamente el compromiso constitucional de Irlanda con la neutralidad y el derecho internacional. El grupo afirmó que las tres mujeres que participaron en la protesta de hoy alegan que el Boeing 767-300 CRAF de Omni Air, que aterrizó hoy en el aeropuerto de Shannon, está suministrando tropas y municiones a zonas de guerra activas en Oriente Medio, incluyendo Israel y Yemen.

Las tres mujeres piden apoyo en la lucha contra la complicidad irlandesa en el genocidio. ¡Apóyalas en el aeropuerto de Shannon y comparte esto en tus redes

ver también Sánchez y Mohamed VI: mientras en Bagdad se habla de justicia para los palestinos, en Marruecos se siguen firmando acuerdos con su verdugo, Israel

“…the Omni Air Boeing 767-300 that landed at Shannon Airport today is supplying troops and munitions to active war-zones in the Middle East, including Israel and Yemen…”

THREE MORE WOMEN have been arrested following a new protest at Shannon Airport this afternoon……

DUBLIN TRAFFIC CLOGGED AS PALESTINE SOLIDARITY PROTESTERS MARCH AROUND CITY CENTRE

Traffic in Dublin’s city center came to a halt as Palestine solidarity demonstrators, frustrated by the collusion of the Irish Government with the Zionist genocidal massacres to block the main O’Connell Bridge.

By Diarmuid Breatnach On March 21, 2025 By rebelbreeze via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-GrW

The early evening protest for Wednesday at Leinster House was called by Collective Action for Palestine. It is not certain whether this is an actual organisation or a flag of convenience for a collection of solidarity groups and certainly many of those present were identifiable from different groups.

This included, from their banners, Mothers Against Genocide and Irish Jews Against Genocide but among the hundreds present, activists of other organisations such as Action for Palestine Ireland, Saoirse don Phalaistín, Anti-Imperialist Action Ireland and Social Rights Ireland were in evidence.

The People Before Profit party, which would usually mobilise strongly for marches called by the IPSC, did not have a noticeable present, which may reflect a lack of contact with the organisers of yesterday’s event or a lesser ability to mobilise quickly.

*The solidarity protest rally becomes a march, proceeding southward up Kildare Street.* (Source photo: *Irish Independent*)

Irish Republican organisations were also not noticeably present, with the exception of the AIA mentioned earlier.

The protesters’ rage and frustration was lit by images of dead and injured Palestinian children in the return to genocidal bombing of Gaza by the ‘Israeli’ armed forces, once again violating their ceasefire agreement, along with besieging and ethnic cleansing of cities of the West Bank.

The previous night Zionist state bombing had killed 414 Palestinians, including 174 children, and hospitalised over 550 more.

*An early view of the Wednesday evening rally outside Leinster House (see in the background), home of the Irish Parliament.* (*Photo source:* Journal)

The marchers called for action from the Government, such as imposing sanctions on Israel in general and enacting the rather mild Occupied Territories Bill, approved by both Houses of the Oireachtas (Irish parliament) but seven years since, still sitting in a drawer; awaiting enactment.

Those calls have been repeated week after week, month after month in the final months of 2003 and throughout last year but only words of concern from Government ministers resulted, followed by friendship visits to the very supplier of the Zionists’ weapons of genocide.

*Still as true today, unfortunately, as it was in August last year.*

Successive governments of the ruling class of the ‘neutral’ Irish State have actively colluded too in genocide through refusing to bar Irish airspace to Zionist military supply flights¹ or to monitor and prevent US military flights through Shannon airport.

MARCH AROUND SOUTHSIDE CITY CENTRE

From outside Leinster house the protesters proceeded southwards up Kildare Street, turning right to flank Stephens’ Green, where they paused to chant more slogans and display banners and placards to stopped Luas trams before then turning northward into Grafton Street.

In that pedestrianised shopping street the march stopped near one of the many buskers regularly performing there, apparently Italian who launched into an amplified rendition of a celebrated song from the Italian antifascist tradition, Bella Ciao, with many of the marchers joining in.

The northward march continued with stops up Westmoreland Street, where the clientele of a pub came out to cheer and applaud the marchers. Then on to the southern end of O’Connell Bridge, occupying both southward and northward-bound lanes with traffic blocked in both directions.

NO al terminal de GNL en Irlanda – STOP LNG- Cambio climático y metano

2018-11-22 from Workers Solidarity, video in English.
Entrevistamos a William Hederman, un investigador ambiental que vive en el condado de Clare, sobre la planeada terminal de gas natural licuado en Shannon.

Su construcción significará que Irlanda no cumplirá con sus compromisos de Cambio Climático y, en cambio, estará atada a bombear gases de efecto invernadero adicionales durante décadas.

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Como el GNL provendrá de los EE. UU., será gas del Fracking, un proceso prohibido en Irlanda que libera tres veces más metano que el gas convencional., muy perjudicial para el Cambio Climático, [video]

William está trabajando como parte de Futureproof Clare (FB, Twitter) que está haciendo campaña contra Shannon LNG. La planta estaría en el estuario de Shannon en Ballylongford, en North Kerry.

original in English

No LNG terminal on the Shannon – Climate Change & Methane

Date: Thu, 2018-11-22 15:39

We interviewed William Hederman, an environmental researcher living in County Clare, about the planned Liquefied Natural Gas terminal on the Shannon. Construction of it will mean Ireland will fail to meet its Climate Change commitments and will instead be tied into pumping out additional Greenhouse Gases for decades.

As the LNG will come from the US it will includes fracked gas, a process banned in Ireland that releases three times as much of the very powerful Climate Change gas methane as conventional gas. [video]

William is working as part of Futureproof Clare (FB, Twitter) who are campaigning against Shannon LNG. The plant would be on the Shannon estuary at Ballylongford, in North Kerry.

Extinction Rebellion solidarity rally in Dublin

Date: Fri, 2018-11-23 17:00

Dublin saw a few 100 people gather last Saturday to take part in a rally in solidarity with Extinction Rebellion, the group which has recently emerged in Britian and which yesterday occupied 5 bridges across the Thames, blocking them for about 4 hours and resulting in large numbers of arrests. This act of Civil Disobediance is in the context of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report that says we have only a decade to reduce emmissions by about 45% in order to try and keep Climate Change down to a 1.5 degree centagrade increase in global tempertures. [video]

In Ireland we have a particular problem with the plan to construct a Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) terminal in the Shannon that would import Fracking gas from the United States and would result in considerable release of greenhouse gases for the next couple of decades, well past that UN deadline. Particularly in the short term the methane released is a very much stronger global warming gas than carbon dixode is, see tinyurl.com/climatemethane for more

Subject: Shannon LNG, Climate change

Ireland’s Women Force Abortion Referendum: It’s Time to say ‘Yes’

‘Ireland’s current abortion law is a long-standing human rights violation, and it needs to be changed’.

‘May 25 can be one of the remarkable days in history, not only for women in Ireland, but also for all women around the world’,

by Ozlem Hangul text shared via Al Jazeera

The countdown has started for Ireland to, hopefully, liberalise its abortion law, which is one of the most restrictive in Europe.

A referendum to repeal article 40.3.3, known as the 8th Amendment to the Irish Constitution, will be held on May 25.

If the majority votes “yes” to repeal the amendment, this will pave the way for a new abortion law, one that is in line with today’s human rights standards.

A draft bill that would replace the current abortion law, if Ireland chooses to repeal, has already been shared with the public – If “yes” votes are loud enough, women will have the right to request an abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.

Ireland’s current abortion law is a long-standing human rights violation that has been depriving women of their right to life, health, privacy, information, equality and non-discrimination, as well as their right to be free from torture and ill-treatment.

On May 25, Ireland will finally have an opportunity to put an end to all this. Continue reading “Ireland’s Women Force Abortion Referendum: It’s Time to say ‘Yes’”

We will March for Choice. Will you?.. Sat, 30th Sept. Dublin

from Workers Solidarity Movement (Ireland)

Ask yourself a question.

A relative, a friend, a neighbour, a co-worker or a stranger on a bus says to you that they were pregnant but exercised their right to choose and secured a termination. Would you then imprison them for 14 years? If you wouldn’t jail someone for exercising their right to choose, would you want to be associated in any way with their jailors?

If the answer to the above is ‘no’, then you might consider joining the 6th Annual March for Choice will take place in Dublin this Saturday, 30th September. We anarchists of the Workers Solidarity Movement will be assembling with thousands of other pro-choice people at the Garden of Remembrance on Parnell Square from 1.30pm, before we march on Dáil Éireann at 2pm.

We anarchists of the Workers Solidarity Movement think that access to abortion should be free, safe and legal. An anarchist society is one in which all people – men, women, trans* – are free to make choices about their own lives. This includes choices about whether or not to become pregnant, remain pregnant or to have children by any means. Continue reading “We will March for Choice. Will you?.. Sat, 30th Sept. Dublin”

“We’re Many and Growing Globally” – the Irish Strike4Repeal Campaign

In the last few months campaigns fighting for women’s rights, and in many places reproductive justice, have been growing in both number and popularity. Over 40 million people participated in the recent Global Women’s marches, Argentinians made headlines worldwide with their cries of ‘Not One Less’ and in Poland over a hundred thousand people took to the streets in a strike that stopped the government in its tracks in its attempts to ban abortions. Continue reading ““We’re Many and Growing Globally” – the Irish Strike4Repeal Campaign”

Guerilla Gays Triumph in new Ireland.

Oisin McKenna takes a look at queer activism today and republican activism in the past in his new show Gays Against the Free State. James Beggan sat down with him to find out what’s what.

shared from rabble.ie with thanks Okay so, you’ve done a show at Fringe before – GRINDR – a love story, and you’ve done Write/Performer/Salesman, both back in 2013. Is this your first show since then?

Yeah this is my first show since then, so it’s been three years, the show that I’m making now took way longer to make than those ones before. I felt like with the other two shows I did, they were about my own life whereas this isn’t at all. The subject matter is quite dense and I needed to know a lot more about it so it took way longer to make. It’s really different as well so it was harder to make, yeah it took a while.”

Did you have many people helping out with this one compared to the last one. Are there more moving parts?

Yeah definitely, way more. In terms of the cast, there are five people in this whereas with my first show was just me and the second one had two people. Then there’s the bigger production team as well, production manager and stage manager, more design people. Before it would’ve been quite small with maybe six people on the whole thing.

This in general is bigger, my other work felt quite intimate, introverted kind of, but this is really maximalist. There are parts that are self-consciously tacky, any time i had an instinct to go bigger or make a point in a more confrontational or inflammatory way, I did that.” Continue reading “Guerilla Gays Triumph in new Ireland.”