An anti-war activist has handed himself over to gardaí, insisting he was being imprisoned for waging peace.

An elderly artist and anti- war activist, released early from prison yesterday after serving part of a second jail term over her opposition to the US military’s use of Shannon Airport, has described conditions inside Limerick Prison as "inhumane".

As we go through a cold, wet and windy March, the mood of the elements seems a perfect match for the response and indifference of the artistic community to the imprisonment of one of their own, Margaretta D’Arcy.

“You just don’t, in the 21st century, behave in the 19th century fashion by invading another country on a completely trumped-up context,” US Secretary of State John Kerry stated on Sunday in response to what is happening in Ukraine/Crimea.

Anti-war activist Margaretta D’Arcy yesterday clashed with a judge over the State omitting the apostrophe in her surname in all documents before the court.

Anti-war campaigner and writer Margaretta D’Arcy could be released from Limerick Prison if she signs a bond pledging to stay out of Shannon Airport, Minister for Justice Alan Shatter told the Dáil. (Irish Examiner, February 7).

Defence Force members were called to Shannon Airport to assist gardaí in security duties, including dealing with protests against US military aircraft, 324 times last year.

our photograph (Irish Examiner, February 4) of four TDs tying yellow ribbons to the gates of Leinster House, in support of Margaretta D’arcy, who is in Limerick Prison, is revealing.

A 2013 Red C poll commissioned by the Peace & Neutrality Alliance showed that 78% of Irish people support a policy of Irish neutrality.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter has roundly defended the imprisonment of an elderly and ill anti-war activist, visited in jail this week by the President’s wife, saying the woman should “not be presented in heroic guise”.

A 79-year-old disabled grandmother who refused to enter into a court bond to stay out of any unauthorised zone at Shannon Airport has been sent to prison to serve a three-month sentence.

Two peace activists protesting at the use of Shannon Airport by the US military endangered the lives of passengers on board two aircraft last year, a court heard yesterday.

Two anti-war activists have been arrested for a second time at a protest at Shannon Airport.

A local initiative to celebrate and honour Liam O’Flaherty, one of Ireland’s greatest polemical short story writers, will stage an informal event in Galway’s City Library on Thursday, Nov 29, between 6 – 8pm.

We, the undersigned, wish to draw your attention to the continued detention of Marian Price, which we feel constitutes an alarming breach of human and civil rights.

WHAT sort of President for the Áras will we have next month?

THERE are huge amounts of research and funding devoted to issues of deprivation, discrimination and positive ageing. However, I do not know whether anyone is campaigning against an anomaly in present pension policy.

Dozens of peace campaigners gathered at Shannon Airport tonight for a vigil to mark the third anniversary of the founding of a peace camp in protest against the use of the airport by US troops.

RECENTLY a friend of ours, a young Angolan woman, came to see us in great distress. We have known her since her arrival in Ireland in 2000 as an asylum seeker with a baby daughter.

RECENT press pictures showed hooded and blindfolded Afghans strapped to the bare metal floor of an aircraft with legs chained and an elaborate network of straps preventing them from sliding.