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These Pictures Are A Protest Against Geraldine Kennedy and Ed Mulhall

category international | anti-war / imperialism | opinion/analysis author Saturday May 07, 2005 21:50author by ashamed to be irish Report this post to the editors

For Their Government Friendly Absolutely Total Redaction Of 'Route Irish' From Irish Times and RTE

The main route for the US Military into the charnel house that is now Iraq (2 years plus after an Illegal Invasion massively facilitated by the Irish Government) is popularly known as 'Route Irish' - the name given to it by the US Military.

It is called 'Route Irish' because it is the road US Military use to get to the Green Zone in Baghdad immediately after they get off the plane from Shannon Airport Ireland.
routeirish1.jpg

So the most notorious and dangerous road in the World is named for this little 'neutral' island and this fact is been hidden from the population of this country.

I accuse Ed Mulhall of the public service broadcaster and Geraldine Kennedy of the Irish Times of systematically omitting this information from their respective organisations outputs. I suspect but cannot prove that this is a policy in both organisations and believe that it is a glaring example of cowardly government friendly self-censorship.

I urge readers to phone both organisations newsdesks and ask specifically why they have (according to their respective archives) never in their prodigous and well funded news outputs mentioned that the most dangerous, notorious road in the World is named after Ireland.

rte (01) 2083111
Irish Times (01) 6758000


Indymedia Route Irish Blog:

http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68521



More Info (cogged from various at below link):
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68972

"Google the entire RTE website for "route irish" and you find NOTHING."

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.rte.ie%20%22Route%20Irish%22

Irish Times (Ireland.com) has a really crappy search engine, but I tried goggle and then logging-in to ireland.com to do an internal search. BOTH resulted in nothing regarding the "Route Irish" we are looking for - some about routes in Iraq, but no Route Irish.

Results from Ireland.com:
"Route Irish" http://tinyurl.com/bv8ux
"Route Irish" iraq http://tinyurl.com/dgava

Compare and Contrast w. Outside World:

4 mentions in the New York Times
http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?query=%22Route%20Irish%22&date_select=full&srchst=nyt
3 mentions in the Washingon Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/Search?keywords=%22Route%20Irish%22
2 mentions in the Boston Globe
http://tinyurl.com/aaul9
1 from the Washington Times (
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050503-061630-7288r.htm
'"It is a road filled with dangers that can kill, maim, and injure Soldiers and civilians," the Army report said. Between Nov. 1, 2004, and March 12, 2005, there were 135 attacks or hostile incidents on the road, referred to by the military as Route Irish.'

Currently there are 15 pages of Google News results (many repeats as UPI/AP/etc newswires are republished in smaller US newspapers....
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&filter=0&q=%22Route+Irish%22&btnG=Search+News

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 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Here is what the US Military think of 'Route Irish' in their accidentally unredacted calipari rept     drunk as a rule    Sun May 08, 2005 16:26 
   Comrade Ahern     Mr. Plow    Sun May 08, 2005 20:52 
   Irish Brigade Fighting 69th     teddyboy    Tue May 10, 2005 02:05 
   Well if that's the case......     Statin the obvious    Tue May 10, 2005 02:16 
   interesting, but...     redjade    Tue May 10, 2005 12:14 
   LINK to David Hackworth obituary.     Ciaron    Tue May 10, 2005 14:13 
   here is the difference     Big Irish from the USA    Wed May 11, 2005 02:25 
   You'll be leaving Iraq, just like you left Vietnam....     Go figure    Wed May 11, 2005 07:48 
   It's all about the numbers     Robert    Thu May 12, 2005 10:27 
 10   Troops sent down Route Irish Into mad Max Hell On earth For Oil and this:     eeekkkkk    Fri Jun 24, 2005 12:59 
 11   Wonder what ai Irish graph would look like Geraldine: Oh sorry, Forgot: Ye're all in Denial     eeekkkkk    Fri Jun 24, 2005 13:02 
 12   How long Till We see the word 'Fragging' in the IT? Not Long methinks     eeekkkk    Fri Jun 24, 2005 13:05 
 13   I bet these US Marine Women's Mothers Just Killed would like to frag someone? Karl Rove perhaps.     eeekkkkk    Fri Jun 24, 2005 15:32 
 14   49% In US Now Say Bush Responsible for Provoking Iraq War 44% say Saddam     eeeekkkkk    Fri Jun 24, 2005 15:45 
 15   Global Polls: China up - USA down (but not with the Poles)     redjade    Fri Jun 24, 2005 15:55 
 16   Operation BTL/R/C (whatever you're having yourself) is on     eeekkkkkaaabbbbbbooooo    Fri Jun 24, 2005 15:58 
 17   Blame the Left For Everything would be irish Equivalent     fox the master    Fri Jun 24, 2005 17:11 
 18   deaths in iraq     iraqi vet    Mon Sep 26, 2005 09:34 
 19   Route Irish     iraqivet    Tue Sep 27, 2005 06:04 
 20   From The Sydney Morning Herald     Mark C    Tue Sep 27, 2005 14:52 
 21   Camp Dublin At One End Of Route Irish     eeekkkkkk    Tue Nov 29, 2005 21:09 
 22   Murder With An Elvis Soundtrack on Route Irish     eeekkkkk    Tue Nov 29, 2005 21:13 
 23   Checking Out With A Bullet To The Head In Camp Dublin     eeekkkkk    Tue Nov 29, 2005 21:15 
 24   Route Irish     eeekkkkk    Tue Nov 29, 2005 21:17 


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