Author
al - perth indy radio
MP3: Interview with Ciaron O'Rielly - Perth Indy Radio - 27 April 2006 - 24 Minutes 8MB
MP3: Interview with Ciaron O'Rielly - Perth Indy Radio - 27 April 2006
INTERVIEW: Ciaron O’Reilly. Brisbane-born O'Reilly is one of the Pit Stop Ploughshares defendants awaiting trial in Dublin on 5 July on charges of causing $US2.5 million criminal damage to a US war plane that was to be deployed in the 2003 Iraq conflict.
Defendants have been allowed to leave the country, but are required to return to Ireland a week before the July trial.
O'Reilly is in Australia to visit family.
On 3rd February 2003, as part of ongoing resistance at Shannon Airport, the Pitstop Ploughshares disarmed a US warplane. Within the month, three of the four companies contracted to ferry US troops and weapons had left Ireland.
The Pitstop Ploughshares 5 will return to trial again at Dublin's Four Courts on Monday July 5th 2006. The trial is likely to run for two weeks.
Ciaron O'Reilly is currently awaiting trial in Ireland for disarming an American war plane on its way to the Iraq war in 2003. He has previously served jail terms in the USA and Australia for similar 'ploughshares' actions and remains committed waging a non-violent fight for peace. He is part of the Catholic Worker movement, which he describes as "a radical Catholic anarchist pacifist movement".
Ciaron is a controversial figure who has received acclaim from prominent people around the world including Desmund Tutu, while also stirring the ire of some within peace movements abroad and in Australia.
"the liberal position is its okay for you to have your protest as long as we can have our war."
E-mail