Shannon Airport.
Members of the Irish Defence Forces tasked to protect a US military aircraft at Shannon airport drew their weapons briefly in response to an alleged “planned and premeditated” airport incursion by three pro-Palestinian activists, a court has heard.
At a special late-night sitting of Ennis District Court on Sunday night, Det Garda Colm Moriarty told the court that a US military aircraft parked overnight at the airport allegedly sustained criminal damage when spray painted with green paint from a modified fire extinguisher on top of a modified van in a taxi area on the airfield at Shannon airport on Saturday morning.