For a change, it's nothing to do with Scott Parkin, and I think this gentleman may be a little more aggressive in his activism techniques..Ciaron O'Reilly, who has had his photo taken with both Nelson Mandela and East Timor's President Xanana Gusmao, was, while returning to Australia last week, detained for questioning by ASIO.

 O'Reilly was reportedly was a member of the"
ANZUS Ploughshares" which disarmed a B-52 Bomber in upstate New York during the 1991 Gulf War. He was also a member of the "
Jabiluka Ploughshares" that disabled uranium mining equipment in the
Northern Territory of Australia in 1998.

In 2003, O'Reilly, in a protest aganst Shannon Airport's use as a refuelling depot for US warplanes en route to Iraq,

[from warontrial.com]

Before the illegal invasion & bombing of Iraq, five members of the pacifist Catholic Worker movement made their way into Shannon Airport
and non-violently disarmed a U.S. navy war plane in the early hours of February 3rd. 2003.

The Pit Stop Ploughshares Deirdre Clancy, Nuin Dunlop, Karen Fallon, Ciaron O'Reilly & Damien Moran spent 4 to 11 weeks in Limerick Prison. They went to trial in March 2005 on two
counts of Criminal Damage -€100 and $U.S.2.5million.

Penalties if convicted carry a maximum of ten years imprisonment.

The March '05 trial collapsed on the 6th day when Judge O'Donnell called a
mistrial, dismissed the jury, and instructed the media not to report on
the reasons for the mistrial.

The October '05 re-trial collapsed on the 10th day, after Judge Donagh
MacDonagh agreed with Defence counsel that his attendance at the Bush
inauguration in 2001 (amongst other meetingswith Bush) was grounds for
his removal from the case, in that his role was tainted with a 'perception of bias'.

Over 100 international & numerous Irish anti-war activists converged on
Dublin for both trials. They were occasions for public witness against
the war, with evenings of celebration of the disarmament and public
meetings concerning ongoing Irish involvement in the war on Iraq.
 

 Two years later, frwhile Dubya was in town for a UN-EU summit, 10,000 people marched through Dublin against Irish support of the US.  When that was done, Ciaron and Co pulled a media stunt that attracted the attention of the American press.

[from CN/ (direct link no longer available) ] 

Irish protesters used Shakespeare to blitz George W. Bush on Saturday,
invoking Macbeth, a ghost and a witch to cast a spell on the U.S. president and drive him, symbolically at least, from Irish soil.

Some 500 demonstrators marched on Dromoland Castle, the 16th
century turreted mansion in western Ireland where Bush met European Union leaders for a summit.

When they were stopped at a police road block, they staged their own version of Shakespeare's bloody Scottish tragedy.

First, a ghost with a whited-out face read the names of U.S.
soldiers killed in Iraq. Then a woman dressed as Lady Macbeth read a list of Iraqi victims.

Finally, a woman dressed as a witch with a black pointy hat
and a flowing cape cast a spell on a man wearing a Bush face mask. The man crumpled to the floor as the witch ordered him to leave Ireland and end the occupation of Iraq.

The protesters held up a banner adorned with a quote from
Macbeth, Shakespeare's powerful drama of death, destruction and ambition in feudal Scotland.

"There's the smell of blood still," read the banner, on which
was painted a gory hand. "All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand."

Some 50 police officers watched the drama unfold from behind
their roadblock, just half a mile from the castle where Bush was
staying for the EU-U.S. summit. The protest passed peacefully and the crowd dispersed after around 90 minutes.

The staging of "MacBush" was one of several events organised by demonstrators to show their anger with the president's visit.

Some 10,000 people marched through Dublin on Friday night in
opposition to both U.S. policy in Iraq and Ireland's decision to host Bush and allow U.S. jets to refuel at one of its airports en route to
the Gulf.

 While awaiting his trial to resume, O'Reilly has returned to Australia to visit his family.  Ciaran's brother Sean was one of five activists arrested while staging a protest at Pine Gap late last year. 

[from Webdiary]

The arrests were not over however. Sean and Jessica had driven to the front of the base and were holding a banner in what they thought was a 
non-arrestable action (Jessica had a plane booked in 5 hours time to Melbourne, and Sean was due to catch one the next day). They were not expecting the anger of the Federal police. We had been to the front of the base twice to picket and pray. Each time they had happily assured us of our right to be there. Now they were intent on revenge and
decided to confiscate our cameras and any interesting documents. As soon as Sean politely asked them what law allowed them to do this he
was arrested and charged with hindering police. No receipt was given for anything taken and as yet nothing has been returned.

 As Brother Sean was more than likely to be one of the family members that Ciaran was going to visit, and as the Brother's O'Reilly had both participated in a protest against  aJoint Australian/US training exercise,  ASIO was about faced with two efficient activists  with networks over two countires- brothers against Bush.

ASIO, no doubt still in the afterglow of deporting Scott Parkin, pulled Ciaran aside for a chat as soon as he set foot on Australian soil.  Licking their wounds from the inquiry into their conduct pertaining to Parkin, they apparently had no way of stopping the travel-weary activist from entering Australia.

Martin Hirst has written a lively account of Sean O'Reilly's ASIO interview

[from Crikey]

The interview took place in a secure room at Brisbane airport and one of the
questions agents asked the jet-lagged O'Reilly was whether he'd had previous dealings with ASIO. "Well you're a secret organisation," he replied, "you tell me if I've had dealings with ASIO agents before."

 With such a reverance to protocol, no doubt we'll be hearing more of the brothers O'Reilly very soon.  I hope so.