White Helmets Tipperary peace prize giving ceremony to go ahead despite protests
4 Sept 2017
Opposition to the presentation of the 2016 Tipperary International Peace Award next Wednesday to the Syria Civil Defence – also known as the ‘White Helmets’, is mounting.
Calls have been made on Ballykisteen Hotel not to host the Tipperary Peace convention ceremony this Wednesday. Protest groups have signalled their intention to picket the venue while organisers insist the ceremony will go ahead.
“The award is a testament to the enormous bravery and courage shown by the White Helmets who have saved more than 100,000 people, while upwards on 200 of the unarmed volunteers have lost their lives while saving others,” Chairperson of the Peace Convention committee, Mr. Martin Quinn.
In recent weeks, numerous groups and individuals including former MEP Patricia McKenna have voiced their concern about awarding the prize to the White Helmets.
The ‘Irish Socialist Republicans’ have confirmed that they will go ahead with a protest at the Ballykisteen Golf Hotel on Wednesday next, (September 6th) and will be continuing the campaign to have the event called off.
Organisers have stated that event is going ahead as scheduled.
Earlier this year readers of The Nationalist had their say on who should win the award.
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Steven
Noonan
10:10, 06 September 2017
Do your own independent research on the White Helmets and decide for yourself if they are actually what they are supposed to be! White Helmets propaganda costs lives. Peace Prize? What a disgrace!
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Ruth
Riegler
16:04, 05 September 2017
Among the supporters of the White Helmets - Jo Cox murdered by a neo-nazi, the Rising Global Peace Forum established by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the London Fire Brigades, and decent people everywhere. Among the supporters and allies of Bashar al Assad: Kim Jong-un, Vladimir Putin, David Duke, Nick Griffin, Richard Spence, Nigel Farage, Matthew Heimbach, Marine Le Pen... Hmmmm... yeah, hard choice to make there on who we should support - heroic people who risk their lives every day to save others OR a genocidal tyrant backed by and allied with other tyrants and supported by fascists worldwide (supposedly in the name of "fighting Islamic terror" - weird, if predictable, how they all morphed into neo-nazi Bushes and Blairs).
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Mike
Barson
20:08, 04 September 2017
No mention why people are protesting? Why don't you mention that they're accused of being al quaeda extremist terrorists backed by UK government and USA to overthrow Syrian regime!
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