Eyes on Shannon

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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Let's count ourselves...

by Denis

Mon Jan 20, 2003 13:15

I 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.

At least 3,000 at the march

by Maura

Sat Jan 18, 2003 20:03

maura at babblogue dot com

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...

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