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Independents Share Interest in 'Grass'
Posted by FoM on June 02, 1999 at 13:57:55 PT
Both have admitted to an interest in marijuana!
Source: Irish Times
Euro election candidates Father Liam Sharkey and Luke "Mingthe Merciless" Flanagan may appear to be poles apart on thecampaign trail in Connacht-Ulster, but the pair has more incommon than meets the eye.
Both are running as Independents; they both have websites;and both have Roscommon links. Fourthly, both have admittedto an interest in marijuana.Last week Liam Sharkey silenced a gathering with hisadmission that he grew marijuana in 1974, when he cultivated it accidentally in Milltown, Co Galway. "I am a keen gardener, I had planted birdseed, and that is what it produced," he confirmed to this newspaper.Now dubbed a "dope-growing priest" by the GalwayAdvertiser, he doesn't think the confession will have done him harm. "I was just trying to lighten the atmosphere in a very serious and heavy debate," he said.Luke "Ming" Flanagan shared another platform with the priestlast week. Along with Minister of State Éamon Ó Cuív, thepair addressed a noisy meeting hosted by the Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) Alliance in Moycullen, Co Galway. Alsopresent was a representative of Euro Independent candidate,Dana Rosemary Scallon.The SAC Alliance is not running its own candidate for Europe."We can't afford it," says secretary Síle O'Connor - but it has put those who are out on the hustings under the spotlight. The alliance now draws support from people with an interest in raised bogs in seven counties. It supports the concept of the EU Habitats Directive, but opposes how the Government is implementing it."The right to cut turf is not our main issue," Ms O'Connoremphasises. "We support conservation of raised bogs, but wewant to be trusted as guardians of the habitat ourselves - and we are concerned with keeping our property rights." Thealliance says the approach taken by Dúchas, the HeritageService, in trying to implement SACs is "intimidatory".At the Moycullen meeting Éamon Ó Cuív was asked towithdraw Dúchas newspaper advertisements uchas, and wastold that local consultation must take place before designation.The social and economic consequences of SAC designationmust be taken into account, the alliance said, and it called for a suspension of the EU directive until this takes place.The alliance says the Government's approach is part of a"master plan to empty the countryside into urban centres". It believes that both Luke "Ming the Merciless" Flanagan andLiam Sharkey appreciate its difficulties, as does DanaRosemary Scallon.Still smarting over her "occasional political tourist" label by sitting MEP Pat Cox, Dana has been busy issuing press releases on daily issues, such as the row over the working hours of junior hospital doctors. Meanwhile, Paul Campbell, the Natural Law Party candidate in Connacht-Ulster, has been busy focusing on international issues and is relying on the party's website in his campaign.The Natural Law Party believes in a truly united, anddisease-free, Europe - and it has proposed that peace couldbe created in Kosovo with help of 7,000 yogic flyers.News article found by Pat Whelan!Thank You, Pat!
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