Article: COUNTDOWN TO WAR: OPPOSITION TO IRAQ ATTACK GROWS AROUND WORLD: NO; 200 kids at Bertie Ahern's old school in banner protest.(News)

Byline: YVONNE KINSELLA

MORE than 200 students at Bertie Ahern's old school staged a walkout yesterday and called on the Taoiseach to say no to war.

Pupils at St Aidan's CBS in Whitehall, Dublin, where Mr Ahern studied in the 1960s, said: "The Taoiseach should listen to the youth in Ireland because we are his future."

The children, aged from 12 to 17, staged the protest as part of a nationwide campaign by students attached to the group Youth Against War.

Organiser Cillian Gillespie, 20, a UCD student from Dun Laoghaire, told the Irish Mirror: "We will stop at ...

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