Principles prove ‘biodegradable’ as party surrenders on Shannon and Tara

AT the Green Party conference on June 13, I argued against the party joining the Fianna Fáil Government because it risked being complicit in future human rights abuses and corruption.

I reminded the conference of the US military stopover at Shannon and Ireland’s complicity in the killing of innocent children, including the pregnant mother of Ali Abbas and three of his siblings in Iraq, and 15 Afghan children in two US air raids in December 2003.

On Tuesday last, according to news reports, at least seven children were killed in a US-led coalition air strike on a religious school in Afghanistan.