Pictures From Last Saturday’s Shannon Heathrow Protest
Here’s some pics from last Saturday’s protest on the moving of Aer Lingus’ Heathrow service from Shannon to Belfast held in Limerick’s O’Connell Street. To be honest, I was expecting a lot more people - just take a look at the photos. Organisers at event quoted figures estimating that 10,000 people would turn up. More reliable counts after the event put the crowds at 4,000. Personally, I don’t believe there was any more than 3,000.
Local politicians delivered thinly-veiled electioneering speeches to the crowds and they lapped it up. John Cregan got a few minutes into his speech before a couple of people in front of me started booing. Rabble mentality took over and the booing forced Cregan off the stage.
