Investigations into airport security breach

AER RIANTA and the gardaí have launched investigations into how an anti-war protester breached security at Shannon airport and vandalised a US Air Force jet without being detected.

Two anti-war protestors, Eoin Dubsky, 22, and Tim Hourigan, 27, were arrested in the early hours of yesterday morning after Mr Dubsky scaled the airport perimeter fence and sprayed a peace sign and an anti-war message on the side of a US military plane. The C1-30 Hercules transport plane was parked in Shannon as the crew rested overnight.

Mr Dubsky, who called the airport switchboard to inform airport police that he was at the US military jet waiting to be arrested, appeared before Gort Circuit Court last night and was charged with damaging property under the Criminal Damage Act 1991.