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June 2013

Gardaí frustrated as protests in Mayo continue

By: 
j debender - Rossport Solidarity Camp

Week of Action unfolds with roadblocks, trespassing, turf collecting, arrests and imprisonment

Posted Date: 
30 June 2013

Extra gardai on duty at Shell pipeline after €150,000 damage to machinery

By: 
Jim Cusack - Sunday Independent

Extra gardai are on duty in Co Mayo this weekend after violence broke out at a protest against the Shell gas pipeline last Sunday when a security guard had his arm badly injured and €150,000 worth of damage was done to machinery, writes Jim Cusack.

Sixty protesters, mostly local people but including anarchists who travelled to Ireland for the G8 summit protest, were said to have been involved. Gardai made six arrests last Wednesday and Thursday after examining CCTV images and are preparing prosecutions files.

Posted Date: 
30 June 2013

Picnics, People Power, Direct Action and Damage – Week of Action against Shell kicks off at Rossport Solidarity Camp

By: 
Irish Student Left Online

Cruss T. Anarcho Mc Professional Protester gives us a rundown of events so far at the Week of Action against Shell in Erris, Co. Mayo.

 

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Rossport Solidarity Camp

 

Posted Date: 
27 June 2013

New Mayo art degree part-funded by Shell causes controversy

By: 
Aine Ryan - Mayo News

€30,000 of €200,000 course funding to come from Corrib Gas Community Gain Investment Fund

Posted Date: 
26 June 2013

8 years of intense struggle against Shell continues this week in Erris

By: 
Andrew Flood - WSM

The first direct actions of the Erris struggle against Shell took place 8 years ago when 6 locals were injuncted and then 5 of them jailed for refusing to allow Shell onto their lands.  In the 8 years that have passed there have been countless direct actions, dozens of arrests, about two dozen jailings and hundreds of people attacked by Garda or Shell's security company IRMS.  But as the first two days of the week of action demonstrated that intense level of repression over so many years has yet to end effective resistance.

 

Posted Date: 
25 June 2013

College funding fury

By: 
Áine Ryan - Mayo News

GMIT staff ‘furious’ DIT to run new art degree in Mayo

Posted Date: 
25 June 2013

Shell face unexpected pirate threat on shallow estuary

By: 
Rossport Solidarity Camp - Indymedia

Today, Monday 24th of June, six people, two piloting kayaks, ventured out onto Sruth Fhada Conn estuary to disrupt the progress of a boat doing surveying work for the Shell Corrib gas project, in a continuation of Rossport Solidarity Camp's week of action.

Posted Date: 
25 June 2013

Corrib Hunger Striker released from Castlerea Prison

By: 
RealityIreland

Corrib campaigner released from Castlerea prisonPress release - Issued by the Rossport Solidarity Camp - 21st June 2013Corrib campaigner released from Castlerea prison

Liam Heffernan released after 10 days imprisonment and 5 days on hunger strike

Posted Date: 
25 June 2013

Anti-Shell campaigners watch play, trash compound, have picnic

By: 
Rossport Solidarity Camp - Indymedia

Today, Sunday 23 June, around eighty people stormed a work site of the controversial Shell Corrib Gas project near Rossport, Co. Mayo. Significant damage was caused to construction equipment. This was the latest event in thirteen years of struggle against the project, which faces concerted opposition from residents due to its dangerous, experimental nature.

Posted Date: 
24 June 2013

Shell compound breached, equipment destroyed in 2nd day of action

By: 
WSM

The second day of the week of action saw an unexpected success when Shell to Sea campaigners managed to breach Shells fortified compound and force security to retreat to the inner compound.  While this happened much of the equipment, in particular the spy cameras, in  the outer compound was damaged or destroyed

Posted Date: 
23 June 2013