Letter to the Editor: Militarisation of Shannon Airport must be stopped

It was most heartening to read the letter ‘Shannon Airport is a ‘de facto US military base’’ (Irish Examiner, July 26) from US army veteran Gene Marx.

It is surely right and just that he should attract attention of the Irish public to the two elderly US Veterans for Peace, Ken Mayers and Tarak Kauff, aged 82 and 77 respectively, who were arrested on St Patrick’s Day last for drawing attention to the truth of what is going on at Shannon’s ‘de facto military base’, Shannon Airport.