Men arrested for breaching security at Shannon

Two people, including a man in his 70s, were arrested early yesterday after they were found do have breached security and entered the airfield at Shannon Airport.

The incursion, described as a ‘peaceful symbolic action’, occurred at around 6am. It involved two known peace activists who attempted to reach a US military aircraft with the intention of searching it.

One of the men is in his 70s and a regular protestor at Shannon Airport and outside the Dáil. The second man is understood to be in his 50s. Both are believed to be from Dublin.