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• by Chris Tindall A small Irish town is pulling
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together to campaign for the release of a truck driver imprisoned in Greece for smuggling 176,000 packets of cigarettes.
Eamon Donnellan was stopped at the Greek port of Patros in July where his vehicle was searched. Nearly all the shrinkwrapped containers were found to contain contraband cigarettes. Within days he was found guilty by a court and jailed for threeand-a-half years.
But residents in his home town of Cloonfad in Co Roscommon are fighting to clear the 23-year-old's name, whose appeal will be heard in December. More than 400 people attended a meeting recently and a committee was formed to campaign for his release. It says Donnellan is innocent and was unaware that he was transporting contraband. Brendan Cregg, principal of Cloonfad national school, says the group will shortly be in touch with the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Ireland and their local senator is helping raise public awareness too.
"We have two aims,'' says Gregg. 'Putting pressure on the people to change the decision and secondly to sup port his family."
A fund-raising event has already been scheduled for 22 November at Cloonfad Community Centre and an account has been set up for donations.
If you would like to make a donation to the campaign, contact CM and we will pass on your details to Brendan Gregg.
• A thirty year-old driver from Kent is being held in Spain after £21m of drugs including hashish were allegedly found in his truck.