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Supporters of jailed anti war protestor Margaretta D’Arcy outside the Irish Embassy in London {top] within the last hour and at Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin this lunchtime.

Margaretta D’Arcy is accused of entering unauthorised areas of Shannon Airport in September 2013. Her case was halted this morning at Ennis District Court after the judge was informed that a member of the public was recording proceedings.

Previously: Margaretta D’Arcy on Broadsheet

Via Gerry Downing (London) and Darren O’Keefe

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From top: Gerry Cahill and Independent TD Clare Daly; Justin Morahan and supporters of Margaretta D’Arcy outside Leinster House earlier.

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

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[Sabina Higgins and President Michael D Higgins]

Áras an Uachtaráin has confirmed that Sabina Higgins, wife of President Michael D Higgins, visited Aosdána member and peace activist Margaretta D’Arcy in Limerick Prison at the weekend.
Ms Higgins’s visit was undertaken in a private capacity, a spokesman said. The visit took place less than a week after Ms D’Arcy, who is 79 and undergoing treatment for cancer, was jailed for refusing to sign a bond to uphold the law and keep away from unauthorised zones at Shannon airport.
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Both women have been friends in Galway for many years, and President Higgins spoke at the funeral of D’Arcy’s husband, playwright John Arden.

Meanwhile, over on the the Galway Alliance Against War Facebook page:

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President’s wife visits activist Margaretta D’Arcy in prison (Irish Times)

Galway Alliance Against War

Previously: Meanwhile, At The Department of Justice

Free At Lunchtime?

Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland

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There’s Nell now.

Supporters of Margaretta D’Arcy [including Independent TDs Mick and Clare Daly and journalist Nell McCafferty] gather outside the Department of Justice, at St. Stephen’s Green in Dublin within the last hour.

They’re protesting over the jailing of Margaretta, who was convicted of unlawfully entering Shannon Airport in October 2012 during a protest against the US military using Shannon Airport.

Margaretta, 79, was given a three-month suspended sentence but it was activated after she refused to sign a bond to uphold the law and keep away from unauthorised zones in Shannon.

Previously: Free At Lunchtime?

Via Paula Geraghty, Seán Ó Sé and James O’Toole

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

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[Feminist and peace activist, Margaretta D’Arcy]

Margaretta D’Arcy, who is 79 and undergoing cancer treatment, was arrested at her Galway home on Wednesday and subsequently jailed for three months in Limerick Prison over protests against the US military using Shannon Airport.

A three-month suspended sentence, which she received for illegal incursion of the runway at Shannon, was activated after she refused to sign a bond to uphold the law and keep away from unauthorised zones in Shannon.

There will be a protest, against her imprisonment, outside the Department of Justice offices at St. Stephen’s Green in Dublin at 1pm today.

There will also be a protest outside Labour TD, Derek Nolan’s office by the Harbour Hotel in Galway, also at 1pm.

More here

79-year-old Aosdana member jailed for three months over Shannon protest (Irish Times)

Previously: Here For The Duty Free