Margaretta fast

News in Brief

Irish artist and activist Margaretta D’Arcy, 80, was imprisoned for two weeks on 9 July, for refusing to sign a bond committing her not to enter unauthorised zones at Shannon airport.

Margaretta served over two months in prison earlier this year for entering Shannon to protest against its use by US military aircraft.

At the time of going to press, Margaretta was on hunger strike in ‘solidarity with the victims of war and in particular with the people of Gaza who are once again being subjected to a brutal bombing campaign by Israel’.