Cork Shell to Sea picket local Garda Headquarters
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Wednesday October 04, 2006 12:29
by John Jefferies - Cork Shell to Sea Campaign
corkshelltosea at gmail dot com
Up to 25 members of the Cork Shell to Sea support campaign this morning picketted the city's main garda station at Anglesea Street which is also the Munster HQ of an Garda Siochana in protest at the heavy-handed treatment of peaceful Shell to Sea protesters at Bellinaboy, Co. Mayo yesterday.
Organised at short notice after yesterday's disgraceful scenes in Mayo, the Cork protest received widespread public support from passers by and motorists who honked their car horns in support.
Protesters were particularly angry at the fact that a large contingent of gardai were brought from Cork to enforce Shell's entry to it's proposed refinery site at Bellanaboy. A leaflet distributed to hundreds of morning commuters called on rank and file gardai to reflect on the orders they are receiving in taking sides with multi-national corporations against a beleagured community.
Among those participating in this morning's protest were Cork city councillors Mick Barry (Socialist Party) and Johnathan O'Brien (Sinn Féin) along with members of the Workers' Solidarity Movement, Workers' Party and Socialist Workers Party.
If you can't find a garda in Cork this week, now you know why!