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 Saturday April 12, 2003 10:53 by Vinnie
 A picket was held outside the Progressive Democrats Annual Conference in the Corrib Great Southern Hotel, Galway. Among the picketers were those protesting the PD's involvement in the plan to build incinerators in the Galway area, and those protesting their complicity in the Iraq war by their support of the use of shannon by the US military. It was a small but vocal protest and gave a good reception to the arriving PD delegates with a rousing chorus for Harney and McDowell. Lots of public support was given as passing cars hooted their horns and gave a thumbs up. One besuited, groomed and smiling PD attempted to engage some the the protestors in conversation concerning the incinerators, but his argument was quite weak and was easily defeated by a local Green Party member who actually had some facts as opposed to the PD's smiling rhetoric. After quite a cold evening some of the protestors managed to make it in to the PD Conference bar, where there was plenty of hot air to keep them warm. They mingled with the suits, and their trophy wives, and received some strange looks while considering whether to buy a round of bloody mary's! |
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