US peace activist in Ireland today

US peace activist Cindy Sheehan will today address a public meeting organised by Amnesty International.

The Human Rights Organisation has called for the review of the case of the Cuban Five.

Ms Sheehan, who lost her son, Casey on duty in Iraq, is in Ireland in support of the Irish campaign to free the Cuban Five and will also meet Nobel laureates John Hume and Mairead Maguire.

She will address a meeting in Leinster House as well as the Amnesty event at Trinity College later.