GALWAY ALLIANCE AGAINST WAR
has criticised the decision taken by Galway city council to support the participation of warplanes at the Salthill Air Show next year. By a majority of 9 to 6, councillors decided to fund the air show to the tune of 15,000. However, the Fine Gael, Fianna Fail and PDs councillors failed to have the funding increased, something the organisers of the show had been strongly lobbying for.
GAAW harshly criticised the decision to once again fund the air show:
We deplore Galway City Council s decision to fund this militarised event. There is something barbaric in the idea that these weapons of mass destruction that cause death and terror in other parts of the world should be presented as a form of family entertainment to the people of Galway.
Also there is a clear attempt by the organisers of the Salthill air show to turn it into an arms exhibition. Why else did the Salthill Air Show website this year advise potential exhibitors: We only seek displays that have relevance to the air show, for example military related exhibitors ?
The website also told those wishing to attend that they would be doing so at their own risk . In light of the accident last June and the many tragedies that have occurred at other air shows in the past this is quite unacceptable. Especially when one considers these warplanes carry out their manoeuvres in close proximity to densely populated residential areas. Can the Council seriously stand over the safety of this event?
"If people in Galway want to get an insight into the real horrors behind these warplanes then they should come along to the public meeting in the Town Hall Theatre Studio at 7.30pm this Friday to hear Caoimhe Butterly’s eyewitness account of life in Lebanon during and after Israel’s war on that country last year."
GALWAY ALLIANCE AGAINST WAR
has criticised the decision taken by Galway city council to support the participation of warplanes at the Salthill Air Show next year. By a majority of 9 to 6, councillors decided to fund the air show to the tune of 15,000. However, the Fine Gael, Fianna Fail and PDs councillors failed to have the funding increased, something the organisers of the show had been strongly lobbying for.
GAAW harshly criticised the decision to once again fund the air show:
We deplore Galway City Council s decision to fund this militarised event. There is something barbaric in the idea that these weapons of mass destruction that cause death and terror in other parts of the world should be presented as a form of family entertainment to the people of Galway.
Also there is a clear attempt by the organisers of the Salthill air show to turn it into an arms exhibition. Why else did the Salthill Air Show website this year advise potential exhibitors: We only seek displays that have relevance to the air show, for example military related exhibitors ?
The website also told those wishing to attend that they would be doing so at their own risk . In light of the accident last June and the many tragedies that have occurred at other air shows in the past this is quite unacceptable. Especially when one considers these warplanes carry out their manoeuvres in close proximity to densely populated residential areas. Can the Council seriously stand over the safety of this event?
"If people in Galway want to get an insight into the real horrors behind these warplanes then they should come along to the public meeting in the Town Hall Theatre Studio at 7.30pm this Friday to hear Caoimhe Butterly’s eyewitness account of life in Lebanon during and after Israel’s war on that country last year."
