Genetic Concern hailed the move as a victory but insisted that the other test go ahead - at the government-run Teagasc laboratory in Carlow.
The move is once again proof that ordinary people can make a difference by protest.
Maybe the demonstration by Genetic Concern had something to do with the decision. It was simple and great fun and colourful and didn't need that many people, though the more the merrier.
Five ghost costumes represented previous mistakes by science, like DDT and thalidomide, initially touted as safe.
A forty foot banner with the slogan "Genetically engineered food - safe or sorry??" was tied to the side of the railway brige over the Liffey beside the Department of the Environment.
People stopped to look and read leaflets being handed out by Genetic Concern volunteers. Luckily the Garda Siochana managed to take time off from not arresting major heroin dealers to pass by about after a quarter of an hour. They called the fire brigade to take down people on the bridge holding the banner. The fire brigade arrived and the two women were lead away to be arrested, on charges of trespass.
It's a disgrace that the Guards are wasting time arresting dceent people.
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