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August 2011

Daily Protests in Mayo, Numbers Building

By: 
j debender - Rossport Solidarity Camp - Indymedia

Actions are constant, sometimes 3 or 4 in a day

Between lock-ons, mass trespasses, lorry climbing and a breach of security at Shell's refinery, this week brought a lot of people out protesting. Locals who haven't been out on the roads in years have come out this week, and momentum is building.

 

Posted Date: 
27 August 2011
Link: 

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/100411

Mayo Road Blockaded in International Solidarity Protest

Early Morning arm tube lock on in solidarity with Broome communityFrom 6.00am to 9.30am Friday 26th August, three campaigners occupied Aghoos Road, as part of the ongoing protests against the controversial Shell refinery at Bellinaboy.

Socialist Party delegation joins gas protesters this week

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Mayo Advertiser

A number of representatives from the Socialist Party were due to come to north Mayo yesterday to join in with Shell to Sea protesters at Shell’s tunnelling compound at Aghoos. The Socialist Party delegation was headed by Dublin MEP Paul Murphy, who took over the seat won by Joe Higgins at the last European elections following Higgins’ election to the Dáil in February. The group joined local protesters at the tunnelling compound yesterday (August 25).

Posted Date: 
26 August 2011

MEP claims gardaí assaulted him at Corrib gas protest

By: 
LORNA SIGGINS, Irish Times

SOCIALIST Party MEP Paul Murphy says he intends to lodge a complaint with the Garda Síochána over his treatment at a Corrib gas protest in north Mayo yesterday.

Mr Murphy says he was “assaulted by gardaí” as he participated in a sit-down protest on a public road close to the Corrib gas terminal at Ballinaboy.

Posted Date: 
26 August 2011

Corrib Protests- If Tuesday Was Not Mad Enough Try Today

By: 
Rossport Solidarity Camp

Dublin MEP Paul Murphy and supporters from the Socialist party joined the protest todayMEP assaulted, work halted for six hours, campaigners drive into refinery and bounced back out again four hours later

Posted Date: 
26 August 2011
Link: 

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/100407

MEP assaulted by Gardaí at Shell protest

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Shell to Sea

Protestors lock on to cement barrel to stop Shell

By: 
Áine Ryan - Mayo News

ANOTHER lock-on protest on the roadside in north Mayo, near the site of Shell works for the controversial Corrib gas project, meant that operations were impeded until lunchtime yesterday (Monday).
The two protestors were arrested and charged at Belmullet Garda Station with Public Order Offences.

Posted Date: 
24 August 2011
Link: 

http://www.mayonews.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1352...

Day of Chaos at Aghoos Compound

By: 
Frank - Rossport Solidarity Camp

A mass trespass stops work, one person on top of a digger for 4 hours

Today 25 people from Rossport Solidarity Camp sustained a barrage of actions against the site Shell is preparing for its tunnel boring machine. Despite 80 security and three vans of gardaí they were unable to keeps the protesters out. In the chaos that ensued one person got through the lines to d-lock themselves to one of the diggers and remained up there stopping work for 4 hours.

Posted Date: 
24 August 2011
Link: 

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/100398

Double Barrel Concrete Lock-on Stops Shell

By: 
j debender - Rossport Solidarity Camp - Indymedia

Monday 22nd August at 6am, two people locked their arms into concrete barrels in the road between Shell's Ballinaboy refinery and the tunneling compound in Aughoose. The lock-on lasted for 7 hours, stopping all deliveries to the compound during that time.

Posted Date: 
24 August 2011
Link: 

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/100397

Myth-making obscures realities of Corrib

By: 
William Hederman - IrishOilAndGas.com

Minister Noel Dempsey’s latest contribution to the debate over the Corrib Gas project is a claim that a fellow TD overheard a mobile phone conversation on Grafton Street in Dublin, in which the words “riot” and “Rossport” were allegedly heard. Previous outbursts by the Minister for Energy and Natural Resources have been dismissed by the Shell to Sea campaign as “unhelpful”. But this intervention is helpful. It highlights the lack of any meaningful attempt by the Government to resolve the conflict.

Link: 

http://irishoilandgas.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/myth-making-obscures-real...