Small number protest in city in support of whistleblower Bradley Manning

Galway Bay fm newsroom - A small group is currently protesting outside Lynch's Castle in the city centre as part of the campaign to free whistleblower Bradley Manning.

It's part of a nationwide series of protests coinciding with his sentencing.

He's to be sentenced at two o clock today by a US army court martial for leaking information to the whistleblowing group Wikileaks.

Organiser of the event, Niall Farrell of the Galway Alliance Against War says Private Manning should be given the Nobel peace prize.