New Events

Mayo

no events posted in last week

Blog Feeds

Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

Public Inquiry >>

Human Rights in Ireland
Promoting Human Rights in Ireland

Human Rights in Ireland >>

Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link ?Ed Sees Himself As Greta Thunberg!? Labour Insiders Now Think Starmer Made a Huge Mistake in Giving... Sun Jan 26, 2025 11:00 | Richard Eldred
Ed Miliband?s relentless Net Zero crusade is splitting the Government and driving Labour towards the abyss of blackouts, rising bills and political ruin, warns Dan Hodges in the Mail.
The post ?Ed Sees Himself As Greta Thunberg!? Labour Insiders Now Think Starmer Made a Huge Mistake in Giving Miliband ?Free Rein? to Pursue His Demented Net Zero Crusade appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ?I?m Relieved,? Says Haematologist at the News AstraZeneca?s Jab Has Been Withdrawn From Britain Sun Jan 26, 2025 09:00 | Sallust
Haematologist Dr Sue Pavord was one of the AstraZeneca jab's biggest supporters, but she knew something was wrong when she saw the side-effects up close. Now she says she's just "relieved" it's been withdrawn.
The post “I’m Relieved,” Says Haematologist at the News AstraZeneca’s Jab Has Been Withdrawn From Britain appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The National Trust is Proof That Trump?s Anti-Woke Revolution Will Pass Us By Sun Jan 26, 2025 07:00 | Dr Nicholas Tate
The National Trust's new 10-year strategy talks more about climate change than country houses. It's an entrenched wokery that's convinced ex-trustee Nicholas Tate that Trump's anti-woke revolution may pass us by.
The post The National Trust is Proof That Trump’s Anti-Woke Revolution Will Pass Us By appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Sun Jan 26, 2025 00:45 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Reform Tops National Poll for First Time Sat Jan 25, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Reform UK has topped a national opinion poll for the first time in the wake of the sentencing of the Southport killer as Nigel Farage's party declares: "No pacts, no deals. Reform is headed for Government."
The post Reform Tops National Poll for First Time appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

Lockdown Skeptics >>

Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter #117 Fri Jan 24, 2025 19:54 | en

offsite link The United States bets its hegemony on the Fourth Industrial Revolution Fri Jan 24, 2025 19:26 | en

offsite link For Thierry Meyssan, the Sarkozy trial for illegal financing of the 2007 preside... Fri Jan 24, 2025 19:23 | en

offsite link Should we condemn or not the glorification of Nazism?, by Thierry Meyssan Wed Jan 22, 2025 14:05 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?116 Sat Jan 18, 2025 06:46 | en

Voltaire Network >>

Maura Harrington, opponent of Shell, jailed

category mayo | rights, freedoms and repression | press release author Friday June 25, 2010 18:49author by S2S Report this post to the editors

--- Jailing comes as Shell prepare to start destructive borehole drilling ---

Maura Harrington was today jailed for non-payment of fines relating to protests against Shell's disastrous Corrib Gas project. She is currently en route to Mountjoy Prison. Mrs Harrington is now the third opponent of Shell in jail, following Pat O'Donnell and Niall Harnett. This is the fifth time Mrs Harrington has been jailed in the last 18 months, and comes as Shell have sent letters to residents of the local area, warning them of the start of drilling works in Sruwaddacon Estuary beginning 'in the coming days'.

Mrs Harrington was arrested when leaving a funeral in her home town of Doohoma today.

In other news, Shell's offices in Belmullet were yesterday closed from 8am until 2.30pm by a protest connecting the BP Gulf of Mexico disaster with the threat of pollution which hangs over Erris. Campaigners hung a banner saying 'Energy shouldn't cost the Earth' from the roof of the offices.

Shell to Sea spokesperson Terence Conway said: “This jailing is purely and simply timed to help Shell to undertake their destructive drilling in Sruwaddacon. The dangers we've seen very clearly with the Deepwater Horizon spill, as well as the giveaway of Ireland's natural resources, are the reasons why three campaigners are now stuck in prison. Maura Harrington has been a resolute opponent to Shell, and it is clear to everyone in this area that the Gardai have gone out of their way to persecute her because she has been such an effective campaigner.”

He added: “Frontline recently released a Human Rights report which clearly showed that the Gardai have not been equal and fair in their policing of the protests in this area, but they continue to do all they can to harass campaigners, while Shell's length of illegal pipe remains in Glengad.”

ENDS

Notes for editors:

1.

Lenihan 'in the dark' about effects of oil and gas exploration http://www.shelltosea.com/content/lenihan-dark-about-ef...ation
2.

Frontline: New inquiry into alleged assault urged http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0427/1....html

Related Link: http://www.shelltosea.com
© 2001-2025 Independent Media Centre Ireland. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Independent Media Centre Ireland. Disclaimer | Privacy