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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday November 10, 2010 13:46 by Shell to Sea
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Today marks the 4th year anniversary of the baton charge and violence by Gardaí against protestors opposed to the Corrib Gas Project. The 10th of November 2006 was chosen by the Shell to Sea campaign, as a suitable day of action as it marked the anniversary of the hanging of Ken Saro Wiwa and 8 other Ogoni activists who opposed Shell. Over 200 Gardaí were drafted in under the direction of Superintendent Joe Gannon (then Superintendent in Belmullet).[1] read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / press release Wednesday August 18, 2010 19:44 by Stop Shell Hell in Mayo
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The 30th of August is the deadline for submissions to Minister for the Environment, John Gormley on Shell's plans to tunnel under Sruwaddacon Estuary which is designated a Special Area of Conservation. The tunnel will be.... * 4.9 kilometers long * 4.2 meters in diameter * 15 months of tunnelling * 24 hour a day tunnelling * 944 truck movements a day at peak construction * 68,000 m3 of material removed * 2.5 km of 3m high fencing read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday August 11, 2010 15:52 by Shell to Sea
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Yesterday morning forty people from around Sruwaddacon Estuary brought Shell’s survey work in the area to a complete standstill. The community walked out onto the mudflats at low tide to assert their cockle-picking rights and disrupt Shell’s borehole drilling survey. At around 11.30am people converged at Aughoose and walked down a public right of way onto the mudflats. The group walked to one of the two jack-up barges and prevented drilling by walking underneath the platform. IRMS - Shell’s private security firm – tried to block their free passage but the people prevailed and walked where they pleased. Three people scaled the legs of the barge and occupied them for about four hours. One person chained himself to the one of the drill-shafts in order to stop the work. read full story / add a comment
donegal / anti-capitalism / press release Friday July 16, 2010 18:01 by éirígí Tir Chonaill
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A call has come for support of Pat O'Donnell and those protesting against the actions of Shell in County Mayo, and for the nationalization of Irish oil and gas for the benefit of the Irish people. read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday June 25, 2010 18:49 by S2S
--- 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'. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / press release Thursday June 24, 2010 10:24 by Mayo Shell to Sea
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Campaigners hung a banner reading “Energy shouldn't cost the earth” from the roof of Shell offices in Belmullet this morning at 8am. This protest connected the environmental disaster suffered by the fishermen & people of Louisiana with the threat faced by the fishermen and people of Erris. In particular the protest was in solidarity with Pat O'Donnell who has been jailed for his courageous defense of the seas and his livelihood. read full story / add a comment 
national / environment / press release Saturday May 22, 2010 09:07 by Velorution
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Today, a 50-strong international bike ride begins the 400 mile journey from a community resisting Britain’s largest open cast coal mine in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales to County Mayo, Ireland, where local people have spent the last ten years fighting a Shell-led gas development. We aim to offer direct support to these two local campaigns resisting the fossil fuel industry. read full story / add a comment
cork / environment / press release Thursday May 20, 2010 09:51 by Brightfight
On Monday the 24th May we will be welcoming a caravan of 60-100 cyclists to Cork City on their long distance cycle from Merthyr(Wales) to Rossport in Co. Mayo ! The purpose of their journey is to raise greater awareness of the respective struggles against Miller Argent and Royal Dutch Shell. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Saturday May 08, 2010 22:00 by Shell to Sea
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A Shell to Sea protest took place this afternoon at the 'North-West Development Forum', held in Belmullet Co Mayo. While previous protests have highlighted that the narrow terms of reference of the forum exclude real debate on the Corrib Gas Project, today’s message was one of solidarity with imprisoned campaigners Pat O’Donnell and Niall Harnett. This was the first such forum since An Bord Pleanála deemed that over half of Shell’s proposed Corrib Gas Pipeline was unacceptable on health and safety grounds in February. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday May 03, 2010 04:17 by NIFC
Report of Annual Republican Dinner which held is in New York the proceeds of which go to CABHAIR. CABHAIR are the charitable organisation based in Dublin who alleviate the financial burden of the dependents of Irish Republican political prisoners A statement was sent by the Republican prisoners in Maghaberry who are currently on protest for political status. Geraldine Taylor also spoke. read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday April 22, 2010 18:12 by Shell to Sea
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Niall Harnett was today (Wednesday) sentenced to six months in Castlerea prison at Ballina Circuit court, for protests against Shell's proposed experimental pipeline. Mr Harnett had a sentence of six months imposed after refusing to undertake satisfactory community service. The sentence was in relation to a 'Reclaim the Beach' protest in the summer of 2008 where Mr Harnett went to the aid of another protestor who was being assaulted by Gardai. He also had a five month sentence confirmed by the court – these sentences will be served concurrently. Mr Harnett further had a two year driving ban affirmed. read full story / add a comment 
cork / arts and media / press release Wednesday March 31, 2010 13:37 by anarkitty
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Local Cork bands The Altered Hours and Mashed Chicken and DJ Dr. Fiasco will play a fundraiser for Solidarity Books in Cruiscin Lan on Thursday 1st April starting at 8pm. Cork WSM, who have organized the event, anticipate a good turnout. Since opening its doors in December 2009, Solidarity Books, a non-profit radical book shop and meeting space, has become a hub for the local Douglas Street Community. This was most clearly seen in the recent hugely successful Douglas Street celebration of International Women’s Day. read full story / add a comment 
sligo / miscellaneous / press release Tuesday March 23, 2010 16:37 by Dungloe and proud
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éirígí call for people to support Saturdays demonstration outside castlerea prison in support of jailed fisherman Pat O'Donnell. They call for his immeidate release, an end to Shell's pipeline and the nationalisation of our natural resources read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Sunday February 28, 2010 14:08 by Michael O'Brien
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Joe Condemns Ongoing Criminalisation Of Decent People To Complete State Sell Out Of Natural Resources To Shell read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday February 19, 2010 10:07 by DS2S
Shell’s decision to suspend key parts of its work on the Corrib Gas project is the beginning of a recognition by the company that its experimental inland refinery project is “not going to work”, according to the Shell to Sea campaign. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / press release Wednesday October 21, 2009 16:53 by Mayo S2S
Today, Wednesday 21st October at 1pm, Shell to Sea stopped illegal work at Glengad, Co Mayo, when a campaigner climbed on the arm of a Volvo digger. Shell were preparing to drill bore holes in a Special Area of Conservation (SAC), and the action was to stop this work from going ahead. Currently Shell have been stopped for 3 hours before their work has reached the SAC. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Sunday August 30, 2009 11:43 by Galway Shell to Sea
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Galway Shell to Sea group with the support of Afri and the community in the Erris area are organising a new petitioning initiative calling for a suspension of the work on the corrib gas project. Signatures will be gathered at public events and by e- mail. The text of the letter requesting signatures is below in both English and Irish anyone wishing to sign or forward this to their contacts for signatures should make sure that they forward all signatures gathered to the following e- mail address suspendthework@gmail.com This petition is worded so as to have the widest appeal, and the wording has been agreed by representatives of the local groups and Afri so please use this text if you are willing to gather signatures.Please support this initiative by dispersing it as widely as possible. Anyone wishing for a copy of the actual petition can request a word copy of it from the address above. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Saturday July 18, 2009 19:06 by Patricia McKenna
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The Green Party’s decision to support the Lisbon Treaty and backtrack on its long standing campaign for a more democratic EU will be more of a hindrance than a help to the Yes side. The voters would currently not buy a used car from the Green Party let alone a rejected treaty. The party leadership has shown that once part of the so-called ‘accepted political establishment’ they turn their back on their principles read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Monday July 06, 2009 14:14 by Shell to Sea
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This afternoon seven Shell to Sea activists in kayaks visited the Toisa Independent, which supplies pipe to the Solitaire, a vessel used by Shell to lay the Corrib gas pipeline. The Solitaire, which left Broadhaven Bay (1) yesterday after laying the first section of pipe for the project, has been the target of several actions recently in the continual campaign against Shell. (2) Despite Shell's increasingly heavy handed response to protests, Shell to Sea activist's have continued their fight. (3) read full story / add a comment
mayo / crime and justice / press release Friday July 03, 2009 18:40 by S2S
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Yesterday in Westport District Court, Judge Mary Devins issued a bench warrant for a Shell to Sea protestor, who was appearing in the High Court, appealing his remanding in custody at the same time. While the Gardaí in Westport didn't seek to have the bench warrant issued and informed the court that protestor Eoin Lawless was appearing in the High Court at that time, Judge Devins insisted upon issuing a bench warrant. read full story / add a comment |
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