On the morning of April 11, 2026, a C-130 Hercules US military aircraft sat on the tarmac at Shannon Airport, the midway point on its journey from the Missouri Air National Guard to a forward operating base in Poland.  Plans quickly changed, however. There were no fuel shortages, no technical faults, no worrying weather patterns moving in. There was, however, a man with a plan to put the plane out of action.  It is alleged that at 9.45am that morning, armed with a hatchet, Daithí Ó Corráin scaled the airport’s perimeter fence, located the plane, and climbed onto one of…

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