8 of the 9 charged after Raytheon protest get bail
Press Association reports that 8 of the nine men, including Eamonn McCann, arrested after forcing their way into the Raytheon offices in Derry and destroying computer equipment and documents have been granted bail with conditions on their movements and association. One of the nine did not apply for bail. Also worth noting, according to the Irish News report[subs req], three of the nine “refused to acknowledge the court” when they were initially charged.The charges are detailed in the PA report..
Miss Naomh Lavery, for the Crown, told the court: “The protesters carrying placards identifying themselves as the Derry Anti-War Coalition staged a protest outside the Raytheon offices. Members of the crowd confronted two security guards who were punched and kicked.”
She said: “They smashed through doors with a crowbar they had brought with them and made their way to a first floor office occupied by Raytheon.
“Three members of staff in the office were ordered to leave and the group barricaded themselves inside.”
She said during an eight hour stand-off, office equipment and computers were damaged or thrown out of the windows. A mainframe computer suffered £150,000 of damage and the total damage was in the region of £350,000.
She said after being arrested by police, all nine people read out a statement at the start of their interviews in which, she said, they attempted to justify their actions.
Those charged included veteran socialist and journalist Eamon McCann, 63.
The others, who like Mr McCann live in Derry, were James Kelly, 45, Colm Bryce, 40, Kieran Gallagher, 45, Micheal Gallagher, 27, Patrick McDaid, 36, Gary Donnelly, 36 and Sean Heaton, 34.
The ninth man Eamon O`Donnell, who was charged alongside them, did not seek bail.
The bail conditions are to be reviewed on 29th August.
Yer Woman, unfortunately we can’t force Microsoft to relocate to Derry. Nobody owes us a living. I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for an company to arrive that meets all the left’s requirements of a good employer.
I totally agree with you Paul, nobody owes us a living at all. Indeed, i left Derry and found myself a job instead of settling for whats on offer at home. But it’s nice to know, surely, that the likes of McCann is standing up and pointing this problem out?
I’m all too aware that it will be yeeeaaars until Derry and , indeed, the whole of Norn Iron, turns into the bustling productive metropolis of yer Londons and Dublins.
Yer Woman, agreed, but you have to start somewhere.
Saw this on Marc Mulholland’s blog, and thought it was interesting:
The TLS has an enthusiastic review of Michael
Gove’s Celsius 7/7 by Walter Laqueur. I was
rather distressed by the whole thing really, but
in particular this bit:
“… Britain is more fortunate than some other
regions of Europe in which Muslims will
constitute a majority in certain age groups
within one generation or even less; it could well
be that appeasement has become the only feasible
policy in these parts.”
How does this sentence sound if you replace the
word ‘Muslims’ with ‘Catholics’, or ‘Hundus’,
or ‘athesists’, or ‘Jews’?
“How does this sentence sound if you replace the
word ‘Muslims’ with ‘Catholics’, or ‘Hundus’,
or ‘athesists’, or ‘Jews’?”
Er, it actually sounds pretty illiterate, Garibaldy – or do I mean inarticulate?
It could also be construed as hasty typing, I suppose
You’d have to address that to Mulholland
Garibaldy,
That sentence sounds just fine if one views it as an interesting demographic fact. After all I’m getting to the age where one worries about who is going to pay for my pension and all the new arrivals are going to do that since the younger generation of all Western European countries don’t appear to be up to the task of replacing themselves (sniffs in dispair!).
Let’s not join in with the idiots who don’t appear to have any realisation of what globilisation is going to mean. There are relatively large Muslim populations already in the North of England and it will inevitably happen here. The fior gael is in for just as big a surprise as the thickest loyalist. King Canute comes to mind.
Lib,
To be clear, this is Mulholland commenting on Laquer. Mulholland is suggesting, rightly I believe, that talk of appeasement of sections of populations is disgusting.
I agree with what you’re saying – we are the last people in the world who should be complaining about migration
“You’d have to address that to Mulholland”
It was, Garibaldy! Maybe you should use the old “[sic]” convention when you quote misspelling verbatim.
I share your concern BTW. That’s one slippery slope you highlighted.
The security guards were not assaulted or hurt in any way. In fact, the glass pane was broken because one of the security guards had linked his arms through the door handles and would have been hurt had the doors been forced open. Thus, care was actually taken to keep the protest non-violent. And no, property damage is not violence, unless it is intended to convey threats of harm to people or animals.
The untruthfulness of the allegations that the protesters hurt the security guards will come out in the trial. Watch this space.
I put in for a job in Raytheon, they wouldn’t have me. They don’t make bombs in there, just software.
It was funny, on the news there was a woman standing with a CMM booklet saying “this is proof they manufacture weapons here”. All a CMM proves is whatever they’re doing, they’re trying to do well.
I can’t comment on the wages in Derry, but jobs are better than no jobs. It’s necessary to have both good and bad jobs everywhere, some people don’t have degrees, HNDs etc. and won’t get a job paying 25k plus benefits.