{"id":157126,"date":"2025-11-24T14:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/157126\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T14:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:14:12","slug":"irish-army-members-drew-weapons-at-shannon-airport-as-palestine-protesters-sprayed-paint-on-us-military-aircraft-court-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/157126\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish army members drew weapons at Shannon Airport as Palestine protesters sprayed paint on US military aircraft, court told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shannon Airport.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/f40308bd-e78a-43a2-9672-5d159e33a85a.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Shannon Airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">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 \u201cplanned and premeditated\u201d airport incursion by three pro-Palestinian activists, a court has heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shannon Airport. Members of the Irish Defence Forces tasked to protect a US military aircraft at Shannon airport&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[97,61,60,3410,43,812],"class_list":["post-157126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-gaza","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}