Galway Shell to Sea girds its loins for Erris

This Janus-faced government of ours : A poodle when brown envelopes are involved & a Rottweiler when principle is on the front line?.

This evening, Galway Shell to Sea activists , our ranks augmented from the Socialist Party, Labour Youth and students from Germany picketed the Westside Shell Service Station in solidarity with our beleaguered brethern in Erris for an hour-and-a-half.

It's now almost pro forma to state that the reception from the vast swarth of passing motorists and trickle of pedestrians was sweet and heartening and so this evening was in tune with previous pickets as regards plaudits from strangers except there was more of a plethora of it than usual probably elicited by the unrelenting protests around the Shell site in Bellanaboy, Maura Harrington's injury this morning and the governments poodling-up to Big Oil whilst turning its contemptible Rottweiler face, in the shape of the Gardai, to/on the people of Erris?

In the foreground Johanna from Berlin & Sarah from Mainz - both are Erasmus students in NUI Galway

Sarah