GALWAY POLITICAL ACTIVIST RECEIVES DEATH THREAT

Date Published: 10-Mar-2008

Niall Farrell of the Galway Alliance Against War has received an anonymous death threat by phone The call came through to the Alliances's mobile phoneThe number appeared in a local paper publicising a bus that will be going from Galway to the anti-war demonstration in Dublin on Saturday. The caller specifically asked for Mr Farrell and when Niall Farrell identified himself, he was told that he was to be shot, just like his sisterMr Farrell’s sister, Mairéad, was shot dead by the British SAS in Gibralter in March 1988, along with two others