Irish heroine stops a bullet to save the children

ON Saturday, November 23, our media treated us to the now familiar news of another battle between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians.

Irish heroine stops a bullet to save the children

But this time the truth behind the usual media-speak was momentarily revealed, owing to the presence at a scene of a remarkably brave Irishwoman named Caoimhe Butterly.

It appears that the reported ā€œbattleā€ turned out to be between Palestinian children armed with stones and fully armed Israeli soldiers who occupy the refugee camp which is the children’s home.

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