No Russian tanks on the M50, but we still protested

IN his letter (August 13), Emmet Dunphy asks where were all the Irish anti-war protesters when Russiaattacked Georgia?

Obviously, he was not protesting outside the Russian embassy in Dublin. If he had been, he might have noticed some other people who were rightly protesting against the carefully prepared Russian invasion of Georgia. — the transit point for a recently completed pipeline from Azerbaijan to Turkey carrying one million barrels of oil per day, until last week.

Perhaps Mr Dunphy didn’t even notice the snippets in the news telling us that about 100 people protested outside the Russian embassy in Dublin last weekend. This is more than three times the number who protested at Shannon at the same time. Despite these facts, he decides to accuse Irish peace activists of being one-dimensional anti-American hypocrites. I’ve met the same type of people before who asked why they hadn’t seen me protesting against, for example those Chinese politicians when they visited Dublin.