SF condemns deployment of troops at Shannon
Sinn Fein has condemned the Government's decision to deploy 120 armed soldiers to protect US military planes passing through Shannon Airport in Co Clare.
Party spokesman Aengus O'Snodaigh said the move is designed to frustrate the efforts of anti-war campaigners seeking to highlight what they believe are breaches of Irish criminal and constitutional law.
"The problem is that the planes shouldn't be there in the first place," Mr O'Snodaigh said.
"If the planes weren't there, there would be action taken against them, so the easiest solution and in fact the quickest way to solve the whole business of Shannon is to prevent [American] soldiers and their planes from landing at Shannon Airport, breaching our neutrality and making us complicit in a war."
