"Family and supporters of the ailing 79-year-old playwright Margaretta D'Arcy have called on Higgins to pardon the anti-war campaigner and secure her early release from Limerick jail, after she was given a three-month sentence for
“Family and supporters of the ailing 79-year-old playwright Margaretta D’Arcy have called on Higgins to pardon the anti-war campaigner and secure her early release from Limerick jail, after she was given a three-month sentence for disrupting US military flights at Shannon airport in Ireland’s south-west.”
See the article: Irish president urged to free ailing peace activist Margaretta D’Arcy – Pardon sought for elderly playwright jailed for refusing to stop protests over US military flights at Shannon airport (The Observer, link)