* Irish Campaign for * Nuclear Disarmament
Feachtas um Dí-armáil Eithneach
http://indigo.ie/~goodwill/icnd.html P.O. Box 6327, Dublin
6, Ireland e-mail:goodwill@indigo.ie Telephone: 087-2476424
Fax: 01-4977043
PRESS RELEASE 6th. August 2003
IRISH C.N.D. TO COMMEMORATE THE VICTIMS OF THE HIROSHIMA
BOMBING, 1945
1.00 p.m. Wednesday 6 August 2003
Merrion Square Dublin
It is fifty-eight years since the world witnessed the horrors
inflicted on the people of Hiroshima when tens of thousands were
killed by the atomic bomb. At no time since 1945 has the threat
presented by nuclear weaons and waste been more real and alarming
than it is today. People in many countries around the world join
together every year to commemorate those victims.
The Irish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament will be holding its
Annual Hiroshima Day Commemoration this Wednesday, August 6th.,
at 1.00 p.m. in Merrion Square Park, Dublin at the Hiroshima Memorial
Cherry Tree, planted by C.N.D. in 1980, in the north-west corner
of Merrion Square (the Leinster House end).
The commemoration will be opened by the Deputy Lord Mayor of Dublin, Cllr. Deirdre Heney, and speakers include Dr. John de Courcy Ireland, President of Irish C.N.D. Scottish-Irish poet Paul Grattan, will read some of his poems. Irish and German children will lay a wreath.
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Fr. Fergal Brennan, S.J., Acting Chairperson of Irish C.N.D.,
calls on the government, and especially, the minister for Foreign
Affairs, to work to have Sellafield closed and safely decommissioned,
at a time when ships full of nuclear waste travel up the Irish
Sea, putting all of our lives at risk. He also demanded that the
Minister should use Ireland's international position, especially
during the Presidency of the European Union, to campaign strongly
for international peace. "The states with weapons of mass
destruction are lining up for terrible conflict. We know that
at least 9 states have nuclear weapons, and 19 have chemical weapons
and 13 have biological weapons. The Habakushi (Japanese victims
of nuclear radiation) who joined us for our ceremony the year
before last, are a powerful reminder of the suffering even of
those who 'survive' a nuclear attack."
Irish C.N.D. President John de Courcy Ireland pleads with people everywhere to work to create an international front against nuclear weapons. "Without such a front, we are in deadly danger of the next international crisis turning into a nuclear war', [especially] if some arogant national leader decides to settle his country's differences with another by using a weapon of obliteration."
John Goodwillie, Secretary Irish C.N.D., 087-231 1944
Brid McGrath 01-4977043 / 087-2476424
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