Fundraiser for the Pit Stop Ploughshares - NUI Maynooth This monday 10th April @ 7.30 til late

national | anti-war / imperialism | event notice Tuesday April 04, 2006 14:05 by H - Global Awareness global_maynooth at yahoo dot co dot uk

Pit stop ploughshares - Deirdre Clancy, Nuin Dunlop, Karen Fallon, Ciaron O'Reilly, Damien Moran

This monday 10th April @ 7.30 in the Venue, NUIM

The venue is beside the students union building on the north campus.
Contact us if you are thinking of travelling out and need directions

[email protected]

Global Awareness & Alternative Music society NUIM present

Fundraiser for Pit stop Ploughshares / excuse for Monday night madness ; )

3 euro admission & 3 euro a drink

Dan O'Shea, MC
Singer songwriter Carl Tullen
Shane Arrowsmith, guy with laptop
Solen, a two piece electronica set up

They're on Trial for Us!

We're on the Loose for Them!

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Before the illegal invasion & bombing of Iraq, five members of the pacifist Catholic Worker movement made their way into Shannon Airport and non-violently disarmed a U.S. navy war plane in the early hours of February 3rd. 2003.

The Pit Stop Ploughshares Deirdre Clancy, Nuin Dunlop, Karen Fallon, Ciaron O'Reilly & Damien Moran spent 4 to 11 weeks in Limerick Prison. They went to trial in March 2005 on two counts of Criminal Damage -€100 and $U.S.2.5million.

Penalties if convicted carry a maximum of ten years imprisonment.

The March '05 trial collapsed on the 6th day when Judge O'Donnell called a mistrial, dismissed the jury, and instructed the media not to report on the reasons for the mistrial.

The October '05 re-trial collapsed on the 10th day, after Judge Donagh MacDonagh agreed with Defence counsel that his attendance at the Bush inauguration in 2001 (amongst other meetingswith Bush) was grounds for his removal from the case, in that his role was tainted with a 'perception of bias'.

Over 100 international & numerous Irish anti-war activists converged on Dublin for both trials. They were occasions for public witness against the war, with evenings of celebration of the disarmament and public meetings concerning ongoing Irish involvement in the war on Iraq.
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The Pitstop Ploughshares 5 return to trial again at Dublin's Four Courts on Monday July 5th 2006. The trial is likely to run for two weeks.

They hope to run another series of events running up to and around the trial. They need your help. Please make contact if you want to join them for the trial or offer other solidarity.

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Travelling to Maynooth? Train takes approx 40min

Train times

Leaving
Pearse 18.30
Tara 18.33
Connolly 18.37

Arriving
Maynooth 19.12

Leaving
Pearse 19.00
Tara 19.03
Connolly 19.07

Arriving
Maynooth 19.42

Leaving
Pearse 20.00
Tara 20.03
Connolly 20.07

Arriving
Maynooth 20.47

LAST TRAIN FROM MAYNOOTH TO DUBLIN 11.15
LAST BUS 66 leaves at 11.25, 11.55 (ends at parkgates street) & 12 (parkgate street)