SO, the gardaí can knock on every door in the Shannon area and quiz the residents about who lives there and what threat they might pose to President George W Bush.

WHAT more do we expect the Iraqis to endure under the occupation? Thousands have been jailed and held without formal charge or visits from families and lawyers.

WHEN I saw a picture of a US Marine Corps KC-130 at Baldonnel recently, I was disgusted. We have handed over another airstrip to the US war machine.

NOW that it has been confirmed by State documents that missiles containing high explosives came through Shannon airport, why won’t the state come clean and tell us just how often this occurred, and to whose benefit? During the massive military build-up and bombardment of Iraq there was a huge number of chartered cargo flights working for the military. Indeed the US air mobility command spent $650 million hiring civilian aircraft to move weapons, etc., for the war.