Wallace: I was looking for evidence in Shannon

Independent TD Mick Wallace told a court he scaled a fence at Shannon Airport to search a US military plane after a Government minister told him to go get the evidence of arms on the planes.

At Ennis District Court, Mick Wallace said that you would not read it in The Beano the Government’s incredulous story that there was no concrete evidence that there were arms or munitions on US planes landing at Shannon.

“On two occasions when former minister for justice Alan Shatter was being finished being as derogatory as he could with me, he told me to go and get the evidence,” said Mr Wallace.