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Thu 05 May 2004War protester gets 100 hours community serviceAn artist's impromptu one-woman "anti-war" protest at the sight of several armoured UN-peacekeeping vehicles driving down a street hampered efforts by an ambulance crew to tend to an injured garda, a court heard yesterday.Ms Dearbhla Donnellan (30), Mona Lee Manor, Salthill, Galway, denied obstruction and breach of the peace when she lay down in front of the armoured convoy making its way down Dublin's Bachelor's Walk at 3 a.m. on November 22nd last.