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Martin Sheen lambasts U.S. Military Use Of Shannon

category national | anti-war / imperialism | news report author Saturday April 08, 2006 22:39author by Damien Moran - Pitstop Ploughsharesauthor email dbamoran at yahoo dot comauthor phone 00353 87 9638398 Report this post to the editors

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Well-known actor and anti-war activist Martin Sheen today condemned the Irish government's facilitation of U.S. warplanes and troops at Shannon Airport. Sheen, who has starred as fictional U.S. president Jay Bartlett in the series 'The West Wing' as well as the films 'Apocalypse Now' and 'Badlands' was receiving and Honorary Arts doctorate in NUIG. He is due to start studying in Galway at the beginning of the new Uni. year.

'President Bartlett' retiring to new role at NUIG
by Frank McNally (Irish Times)

The Government should not believe anything the US says about its use of Shannon airport, because the White House is controlled by "a bunch of gangsters", The West Wing actor Martin Sheen has claimed. But the man famous for playing a fictional US president admits he may have to tone down his opposition to the real one during his next major role, as a full-time student in NUI Galway, writes Frank McNally.

Speaking after an honorary arts doctorate was conferred on him by the National University of Ireland yesterday, Sheen (65) said he would become the "oldest undergraduate" at NUIG later this year when he begins a course in philosophy and English literature

Read the full article:

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/front/2006/0408/231489....html

Sheen's Movies, etc.

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Sheen's activism

http://martinsheen.net/id91.html

Related Link: http://www.peaceontrial.com
author by Coilínpublication date Sun Apr 09, 2006 23:21author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Nice one, Damo. That article looked good on the front of the Irish Times, with a nice portrait of Sheen and all.

Let's hope Sheen does distract his fellow students at NUIG - and, in fact, the whole of Galway - by inviting them all to go down and demonstrate with him the next time Bush visits Shannon.

Best,
Coilín.

 
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