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Maura Harrington Released On Emergency Budget Day
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Tuesday April 07, 2009 17:28 by Dublin Shell To Sea
Shell to Sea campaigner, Maura Harrington was released from Mountjoy Women’s Prison this morning after serving 28 days. Maura had been imprisoned for allegedly slapping a member of Garda Siochana, a charge which she denies.
Maura proceeded from Mountjoy Women’s Prison to Dail Eireann, where she was accompanied into the Dail by Aengus O Snodaigh TD and Martin Ferris TD. Maura met with press outside Dail Eireann where an impromptu press conference had been called.
Maura called for an end to the gas give away: “Our pension fund was given to bail out the banks, and we now stand to gain nothing from our own natural gas and oil resources. The government is putting pressure on the people of Ireland today with this new Budget, but the oil and gas companies are feeling no pressure.” MAURA HARRINGTON RELEASED ON EMERGENCY BUDGET DAY
Shell to Sea campaigner, Maura Harrington was released from Mountjoy Women’s Prison this morning after serving 28 days. Maura had been imprisoned for allegedly slapping a member of Garda Siochana, a charge which she denies.
Maura proceeded from Mountjoy Women’s Prison to Dail Eireann, where she was accompanied into the Dail by Aengus O Snodaigh TD and Martin Ferris TD. Maura met with press outside Dail Eireann where an impromptu press conference had been called.
Maura called for an end to the gas give away: “Our pension fund was given to bail out the banks, and we now stand to gain nothing from our own natural gas and oil resources. The government is putting pressure on the people of Ireland today with this new Budget, but the oil and gas companies are feeling no pressure.”
Speaking at a Shell to Sea press conference in November 2006, then Green Party leader Trevor Sargent said "The root cause of this problem goes right back to the way in which the giveaway deals were done for exploration licences and it is comparable, in historic terms, with the Act of Union of 1800, in the way a dodgy deal can be made to look legitimate," Sargent said in 2006.
Meanwhile, there is a growing public awareness of the scale of the giveaway of Irish gas and oil by the Government, of which Sargent is now a member. Based on Government figures for the estimated size of Ireland's gas and oil reserves, something in the region of €540 billion worth of our natural resources will be given away to multinational companies over the coming years. This giveaway arises due to legislative changes made by ministers Ray Burke in 1987 and Bertie Ahern in 1992.
“The oil and gas companies do not have to pay any royalties and all taxes are cost deductible. This is an insane situation on a day when the Irish Government is trying to claw back 3.5 billion euro in an emergency budget which cuts essential public services. To add further insult to the people of Ireland, not only will we not gain monetarily in any way from our own gas and oil resources, we will have to bid on the international market for this oil and gas. We have no security of supply despite Shells assertions to the contrary.” Caoimhe Kerins of Dublin Shell to Sea said.
Maura Harrington vowed to continue in the local community’s struggle against the Corrib Gas Project. “Glengad beach and the Glengad area are not available to Shell. They never will be. Shell can come and they can fight. They have been trying to get rid of us for ten years. We are not going anywhere.”
On Monday 6th April Naoise O’ Mongain, Maura’s husband and local fisherman, Pat O’ Donnell traveled to London where they read out a statement from Maura Harrington at an international human rights event which included representatives of Amnesty International, EarthRights International, the U.S. Center for Constitutional Rights and Greenpeace. Harrington had been invited to attend but was unable to due to her imprisonment.
The event, at the Amnesty International Centre in London, was intended to highlight a court case in New York next month, in which Shell and one of its senior executives are to face charges relating to their complicity in the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other anti-Shell activists in November 1995.
www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/apr/05/shell-saro-wiwa-execution-charges
Maura Harrington
Maura Harrington, former principal of Inver National School, close to Shell's refinery site, has been a prominent member of the campaign against the proposed inland refinery and high-pressure pipeline. The campaign began in November 2000. It adopted the name Shell to Sea in January 2005.
Harrington has just served two weeks in Mountjoy Prison for allegedly slapping a garda in the face in June 2007. She denied the charge, but declined to offer a defense after Judge Mary Devins refused to allow video evidence of the incident in June 2007 to be shown in court.
On the occasion in question, on 11th June 2007, 20 local people were injured by gardai when Shell contractors attempted to force their way onto private land with a digger. Several needed hospital treatment. Shell subsequently conceded publicly they were in the wrong in trying to access the private land of Paddy McGrath. However, no action has been taken against gardai involved in the violence on that day.
Local campaigners have brought hundreds of complaints to the Garda Ombudsman Commission relating to the policing of protests at Shell's refinery site. These detail incidents of punching, kicking, finger-breaking, throwing into ditches, verbal abuse and harassment.
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FOR VERIFICATION, COMMENT OR MORE INFO, CONTACT:
* Maura Harrington, 087 9591474
* Caoimhe Kerins 085 8328130
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10A warm welcome home Maura and warmest solidarity to all comrades and concerned citizens who are battling this project.
I've been off side for a while with domestic issues, but am trying to raise what I see as the centrality of advertising the websites on the streets, and other public areas, using posters, stickers, etc. It is if you like, it's an old fashioned way of flagging up internet use, to counter State /Corporate media misinformation and general mushroom treatment on this vital issue.
PS: I wonder did that public servant 'Judge' Mary Devins have one eye on her diary, or did she have her eye directed to the diary to effect a release date that would coincide with 'Emergency Budget Day'.
A bad mind some people have, after all we have a constitutional seperation of powers.
Aint that a 'cornerstone' of our ahem, constitutional framework ? Yeah Right !
Solidarity to all.
Welcome Home Maura good to have you back.
You did the time, and now they must pay for their crime.
Shell to Sea.
Maura for Taoiseach.
Some pics of the press conference and demo at Corrib house ($hell HQ)
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Congratulations and thanks Maura -- for a job really well done.
"This giveaway arises due to legislative changes made by ministers Ray Burke in 1987 and Bertie Ahern in 1992" (from above).
Has anybody looked at the legislation in question?
With Article 10 of Bunreacht na hEireann (Constitution of the Republic of Ireland) in mind, the chances are the legislation in question is unconstitutional; and, if it is, it can be permanently filed away in the rubbish bin marked "Illegal Law".
In theory at least, and provided that the "possibly impossible" (at present) task of finding a few non-corrupt Republic of Ireland lawyers who have what it takes to responsibly engage in the process, facilities do already exist for checking the constitutionality of all of the legislation that has been produced at the hands of the three main branches of our Government (i.e. Executive, Legislative, Judicial) - please see at:
http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/government...sions
While peaceful and lawful public protests of all kinds appear to be essential (and hugely helpful) in regard to this extremely important matter of our large (possibly vast?) gas and oil reserves, I fail to see how they will EVER be enough on their own; and, that unless the flawed legislation is identified, successfully challenged, and rooted out, our "courts of law" (so called) will always succeed (eventually) in bullying the protesters into submission: and if necessary they will so with the help of the guards (police), the army, the navy, the air force and so on -- while arrogantly but falsely asserting that "the law is the law is the law".
See also "State Tyranny, and the role played by unconstitutional legislation":
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=State+Tyranny%2C+a...earch
" There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries "
Or as Bob the Builder & some other fella sez: 'Yes - we can!'
This is the time to be rid of the corrupt, incompetent gombeens who sold the birthright of the people of Ireland.
Current developments (on a range of fronts) seem to clearly suggest -- beyond all doubt -- that our "public servants" need to be watched much, much more carefully: and directly confronted by the public much more quickly, and by all lawful means, the moment wrongdoing is suspected.
The price of freedom (from tyranny) is eternal vigilance:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=The+price+of+freed...earch
After 28 days in jail Maura Harrington is welcomed home to Erris
At around 10.30pm on tuesday night, Maura Harington was met by dozens of supporters in Ballina as she returned to Erris after 28 days in prison. Over 60 cars then drove in convoy, bringing Maura home. The continuing strength of the local campaign was clearly demonstrated as the cavalcade drove through local towns. The rally ended at Glengad, at the site where Shell built their compound last year when they failed to carry out pipe laying work. Before people dispersed, Maura spoke to the crowd of people, "Glengad belongs to us....It is all of us here together who will hold this, and hold it for as long as it takes. We've held it for 10 years. They did their damnedest last year, they will do their damnedest again this year. We held them last year; we have to hold them this year.... This is worth fighting for. This is worth doing anything it takes." YOUTUBE video to follow
It's time the arrogant "ruling elite" parasites were brought down off their high horses, and shown very clearly that the law is not just for them to do as they please with.
We are all expected to abide by the law on the clear understanding that we will ALL be SERVED by the law as well.
Enough is enough.
"The hedge sparrow fed the cuckoo so long, that it had its head bitten off by its young":
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=King+Lear%2C+Cucko...earch
Well done Maura and long may you be able to stand up for your rights, and for the rights of all others as well.
Apologies for not posting any comments until now - first day out was taken up in an out of order court and then prep for Easter; also have no proper net connection from home at moment (will leave conspiracy aside until all else is considered).
Thank you so much to all who continue to support the Shell to Sea campaign and who did great work outside while I was inside - all those who maintained the vigil outside the jail with Naoise; those who handed out thousands of leaflets, those who came from Erris, Cork, Galway etc.; all who took part in the concert outside the gates; everybody who wrote cards and letters which are invaluable to people in prison.
Thanks to Christy for the song dedication in Castlebar; to Philip McGrath for coming from Rossport; to Senator David Norris for countering, as only he can, the miserable State attempt at Stalinist tactics in ordering a psychiatric assessment (but not a report); to Aonghus Ó Snodaigh and Martin Ferris who signed me into the Dáil on Budget Day where I saw Shell's John Egan sashaying along (who signed him in??)
To all who are willing to fight in the local context for environmental integrity and, at national level, for a full renegotiation of the current oil/gas licensing terms and conditions - thanks.
The fight goes on ...
Maura - certified sane!