From top: Independent TD Mick Wallace; Claire Daly and Mick Wallace at Shannon Airport in July 2014
[Mick Wallce] had been fined €2,000 on two charges of breaching airport by-laws during a protest at Shannon Airport in July last year but has not paid the fine.
Mr Wallace was allowed to drive to his home near Clontarf Garda Station to collect clothes and was then driven to Limerick.
TD Wallace arrested over non-payment of fine (RTÉ)
(Rollingnews/Loais Nationalist)
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I can feel that cold chill….
I see the blushirts are beginning their silencing of independent voices in the dail.
First they came for the tax-dodgers. I did not speak.
don’t pay the fine get ready to do time…..enjoy the holidays Mick and Clare!
in and out within a few hours. hope you’re happy with that waste of taxpayer’s money there rugbyfan.
Saint Paul says : About fupping time.
Hopefully they will close this site down soon also.
Hello Saint Paul. 2 questions.
What do you think is wrong with this site?
What sites would you recommend?
DullDav. Facts would suggest that Tricky Micky’s failure to pay a fine has led to his arrest.
Facts would suggest that it his continuing opposition to the unlawful War Machine operating out of Shannon Airport that has led to his arrest.
He can oppose it all he likes. Being in contempt of court is not an act of opposing US military use of Shannon. It’s saying that he doesn’t recognise the courts role in society.
The so-called Courts in this land are the domain of the criminal bankers and sit in contempt of the people.
So-called courts.
You’re hilarious.
If only I was joking…
Just ask Zuppy for specifics over soundbites, that usually gets rid of him.
That’s sedition.
Bailiff, take him out behind the chemical shed and shoot him.
Next case.
Zuppy doesn’t have specifics. He has imagination and a tenuous grasp of reality.
Do your own research on what’s happening: Castlebar is but one example: Registrars who think they’re judges, Gardaí assaulting people inside ‘court’; High Court judges contradicting another (Murphy/Noonan), the wholescale fraud of ‘Rateable Value’ to gain jurisdiction in the circuit court for cases that should be heard in the high court. etc etc…
None of this is ‘news’…
Is that the ISIS fighting war machine then?
no the Isis creating one I believe…
Of course, it’s all their fault in the end. Silly me!
When you gave Isis the weapons in the first place it becomes a little fuddled
I prefer the older material from Unlawful War Machine.
You can’t fight the machine.
no but you can tape a ‘kick me’ sign to its back when it’s not looking.
Wallace is an attention seeker. He is just acting the clown.
WALLACE IS A LEGEND.
Did it help to forget expensive circus of briberous leprechauns?
Saint Paul says “It’s election time folks”
These kinds of desperate reality show tactics are part of the warm-up act.
Cunning stunt from Wallace – the Wexford peasants will read as this as the big lads up in Dublin being bullies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfeaNKcffMk
Maybe you’re right. With the corrupt clowns not resigning and certainly not being arrested, going to jail for what you believe n becomes a badge of honour.
Stop posting in the 3rd person you strange person.
Well I guess he and Clare Daly are the only people in the entire nation with the guts and conviction to actually make a stand against Irish neutrality being abused and compromised so the US can try to get WW3 started….with anyone!!! We’re a ripe target for the terror due to what goes on at Shannon. If we suffer a terror attack I doubt anyone will be critical of Mick and Clare actions.
There’s the woman in the orange Action Man outfit also.
The only way we are even slightly a target for terror is through stunts like this highlighting the US reliance on Shannon.
OK, so we should pretend it’s not happening, you foolish person.
That’s not what I’m saying at all you foolish person
Coveney wants too buy some jet fighters, suppose foreign aid has bought enough for central Africa and the Air corps have got none to play with.
Pretty spiteful to jail him at Christmas.
Maybe he should have just paid the fine and not gone to jail at all.
Or not endangered people’s lives by wandering onto the runway in the airport in the first place.
Pay fine, exit jail.
Also, must say it’s a ludicrous piece of theatre to jail a privacy-adverse TD two weeks before Christmas. Have they no idea of the Irish Times opinion piece consequences?
So if we just keep quiet about Shannon and don’t highlight it with stunts like this, then terrorists, somehow, won’t notice Shannon being used by the US? Pretty funny.
They could have deducted the fine from his Dail wages but the dopes decided to give him a nice day of media exposure instead. Most people are wary of Shannon’s use by the US military and the cack-handed handling of this by the Gardaí draws attention to this breach of Irish neutrality
That’s a classic!! So if everyone could keep schtum about Shannon! Don’t tell anyone the yanks are using it and we’ll all be fine! Phew, glad that’s sorted!
Not to worry lads and lassies. There’ll be some Finners slammed up soon enough.
Espesh if they the lose the elections. We’ll go hunting for them in trucks. Round them up and stick them in the Curragh. Yehoo.
OK, let me rephrase that.
Despite how much the media might like to pretend otherwise, we are not a target for Isis. The only thing that could even raise us to a potential target is stunts like this which highlight the US reliance on Shannon (not their use of Shannon which is common knowledge) and the laughable security in Shannon. Even if they did decide that this made us some how worth targeting the intelligence services (Irish and others) are all over any likely suspects in Ireland so it would come to nothing.
The US using Shannon doesn’t make us a target, but the people objecting to it do. That’s adorable,
That’s not what I said. The US use of Shannon is common knowledge but we’re not a target. The protests won’t make us a target. The protests do highlight the reliance that US has on Shannon and the lack of security but, while that might draw attention to us, it still won’t make us a target.
Okay. I agree with that.
No body, nose, nuthin’ lads…quel problème?
Loved him on Six One…
“…Did you talk to them? [prisoners]”
Deadpanly delivered, Mick says “I talked to them all”
G’man Mick!
This man is a thundering disgrace.