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Animals In Warfare

Friday 23rd November

Some disturbing news emerged during the week about British army surgeons using live pigs to simulate battlefield injuries during training exercises. According to reports, the pigs are anaesthetised, subjected to battle wounds, and then carried off the battlefield on stretchers by Army medical teams. Army surgeons then carry out operations as they would on a normal battlefield. Needless to say, animal-rights groups are up in arms, describing the practice as "impossible to justify medically, ethically and educationally". Some might say the name given to the operation was just a little tasteless as well; the British army dubbed the practice "Operation ...

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/mooney/programmes/2012/1123/354529-mooney-friday-23-november-2012/?clipid=942185

Blood Sweat and Tears: An Irish Soldier’s Tale of Love and Loss

Thursday 22nd November

By Tom Clonan (Liberties Press) Irish troops have served 40,000 individual tours of duty over four decades in Lebanon. Forty-seven Irish troops died in Lebanon and thousands more have returned with physical and psychological injuries. But the Irish experience in Lebanon is not something we hear a lot about in the media. Tom Clonan, Security Analyst with the Irish Times tells the true story of the Irish at war through an account of his experiences as an Irish Army Officer serving in Lebanon between 1995 and 1996. His vivid account brings us from a rain-swept Dublin Airport on a dark ...

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/today-with-pat-kenny/programmes/2012/1122/353631-today-with-pat-kenny-22nd-november-2012/?clipid=937194

Iraq – Ten Years On

Wednesday 27th March

It’s 10 years this month since the United States led invasion of Iraq in Operation Iraqi Freedom – and a war from which the US still can’t extricate itself. The invasion led to the toppling of Saddam Hussein, but at what cost? So will it be another ten years? Myles was joined by Irish Times Security Analyst, Dr. Tom Clonan.

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/today-with-pat-kenny/programmes/2013/0327/378618-today-with-pat-kenny-wednesday-27th-march-2013/?clipid=1039403