Anti-war artists, musicians and activists were marking the third anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq with a concert tonight to benefit groups campaigning against the war.

ANTI-WAR activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested and removed from the gallery on Tuesday night just before US President George W Bush’s State of the Union address, a police spokeswoman said.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is hosting one of the world’s largest anti-globalization, anti-war events starting tomorrow – and the timing couldn’t be better.

YOUR correspondent Don Nash (Irish Examiner letters, December 15) refers to the ‘fascist remake’ of America by the Bush administration. In which sense?

AN American mother whose son was killed in Iraq demanded the Government stop the US military using Shannon Airport as it emerged that the 303,323 troops who passed through the airport this year generated €37 million.

The Irish Government must stop the US military using Shannon Airport to transport troops to the Middle East, American anti-war campaigner Cindy Sheehan demanded ahead of a meeting with Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern today.

US anti-war campaigner Cindy Sheehan is to meet TDs and Senators outside Leinster House in Dublin today.

Hundreds of protests and vigils will be held across the United States today to mark the 2,000th US military death in Iraq.

The 2,000th US military death in Iraq could not have come at a worse time for President George Bush.

Cindy Sheehan, the American woman who has used her son’s death in Iraq to spur the anti-war movement, was arrested today while protesting outside the White House.

President George Bush has paid tribute to US Gold Star mothers, honouring the deaths of their sons and daughters in the military as activists began gathering for an Iraq anti-war protest on Saturday.

ON Wednesday, US President George W Bush received Iraqi president Jalal Talabani in the White House. Talabani’s remarks to Bush could have been written by Karl Rove.

A bereaved mother who has spent weeks protesting against the Iraq war outside US President George Bush’s Texas ranch, has said his refusal to meet her only galvanised support for her cause.

Actor Martin Sheen joined anti-war protesters camped up at US President George W Bush's Texas ranch last week to voice his opposition to the ongoing battle in Iraq.

SEVERAL thousand people descended on US President George Bush’s adopted hometown over the weekend to attend a rally supporting him, or for the last leg of an anti-war demonstration near his ranch.

President George Bush today asked Americans to be patient with the military mission in Iraq as he faced a weekend of boisterous anti-war rallies planned in his hometown of Crawford in Texas and a new survey showing less than half of those polled supported his Iraq policy.

US president George Bush again vowed that there would be no retreat from the war in Iraq as he addressed an enthusiastic crowd of military families.

US President George Bush, rebutting critics who are calling for the US to pull out of Iraq, pledged that as long as he is president: “We will stay, we will fight and we will win the war on terrorism.”

US President George Bush suggested today that anti-war protesters such as Cindy Sheehan, who want the troops brought home immediately, do not represent the views of most US military families and are “advocating a policy that would weaken the United States".

US President George Bush will today embark on a round of speeches aiming to shore up fading support for the Iraq war.

More than 1,500 candlelit vigils will be held across the United States tonight in support of the bereaved mother camped outside US President George Bush’s Texas ranch.

A one-woman protest which pitched up on US President George Bush’s doorstep 10 days ago has become the focus of heightened tensions both in support of and against the Iraq war.

SUPPORTERS from all over America have joined the mother of a US soldier killed in Iraq in a roadside peace vigil protest near President George Bush’s Texas ranch.