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October 2016

Undercover policing: fresh questions over Mark Kennedy's activities in Ireland

By: 
Statewatch.org

"GARDA CHIEFS and Scotland Yard commanders allowed British undercover policeman Mark Kennedy to spy on environmental groups in Ireland, including the Shell to Sea campaign in Mayo. Dublin Sinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan wants Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald to get some long-overdue and straight answers from her British counterpart when she meets Home Secretary Amber Rudd this month...

 

Posted Date: 
25 October 2016

Tax trouble won't sink Pat Cowman

By: 
The Pheonix

Spare a thought for Belmullet businessman Pat Cowman who was named in the Revenue's latest list of tax defaulters for filing incorrect VAT returns at his company, Henman Developments Ltd. Pat, who is well known in Mayo because of his links to Shell Oil and the Corrib gas field, reached a settlement with the taxman over the offence for a meagre €4,000. 

Posted Date: 
25 October 2016

Screening of Atlantic and Q&A with producer to take place in the Belltable

By: 
Limerick Leader
Screening of Atlantic and Q&A with producer to take place in the Belltable
 

Producer Marie Therese Garvey with Risteard O’Domhnaill and Brendan Gleeson

Posted Date: 
22 October 2016

Unique presentation of Radio Play ‘Fionnuala’

By: 
Afri
Donal O'Kelly performs 'Fionnuala'

Donal O’Kelly performs ‘Fionnuala’

Posted Date: 
18 October 2016

British police spy at Shell to Sea in Mayo – MEP wants Justice Minister to get answers from counterpart

By: 
John Hedges - An Phoblacht


Police spy Mark Kennedy (centre), at the Ballinaboy terminal in County Mayo, was involved in the Shell to Sea protests about the Corrib gas pipeline (Photograph: Indymedia)

GARDA CHIEFS and Scotland Yard commanders allowed British undercover policeman Mark Kennedy to spy on environmental groups in Ireland, including the Shell to Sea campaign in Mayo. Dublin Sinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan wants Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald to get some long-overdue and straight answers from her British counterpart when she meets Home Secretary Amber Rudd this month.

London Metropolitan Police officer Mark Kennedy (pictured) spent seven years, from 2003 to 2010, infiltrating environmental campaign groups engaged in direct protest action against nuclear power stations and other environmentally dangerous projects. Some of those who were charged and brought to trial as a result of these activities gave evidence that the police spy was an agent provocateur, facilitating, organising and instigating unlawful actions, not simply monitoring them.

Posted Date: 
18 October 2016

Corrupt Irish Police Force: The Gardaí

By: 
John Donovan - RoyalDutchShellPLC.com

OSSL is the whistleblower “Mr Fixit” company that has admitted distributing bribes to the Irish Police (the Garda) and other parties on behalf of their client, Irish Shell, to smooth the path of the controversial Corrib Gas project in Ireland.

 

OSSL director Desmond Kane has drawn my attention to the astonishing news articles below, which speak volumes about the deeply flawed integrity of the Garda.

Posted Date: 
11 October 2016

State's campaign of violence - 10 years old today

10 years ago today, the State launched its campaign of violence against the people protesting against the Bellanaboy refinery. None of the men of violence have ever been prosecuted.

Posted Date: 
3 October 2016

Fionnuala & Donal O'Kelly nominated for Prix Italia

By: 
Donal O Kelly

[Shell to Sea]  Huge congratulations to Donal O Kelly on getting his play Fionnuala getting nominated for Prix Italia for best radio drama.  Also a damning indictment of media in Ireland & RTE that it is listed as a Norwegian radio drama after NRK (Norwegian state broadcaster) commissioned Fionnuala.

 

I'm a bit gobsmacked here, 'cos I'm only after realising now that my radio adaptation of Fionnuala, about the Shell-Statoil Mayo gas fiasco, in Norwegian for NRK, is on the shortlist of 5 radio dramas for the Prix Italia 2016. I got an email about it an all a couple of weeks ago, but I didn't read it properly!! It's on THIS WEEKEND. The other four are from the BBC, France, Romania and Sweden. It's note-worthy that an established media organisation such as the Prix Italia agrees with NRK (Norwegian state broadcaster) that the corruption involving Shell/Statoil, the Irish state and the Gardaí over many years in Erris Co. Mayo matters enough to warrant investigation through radio drama. Huge thanks to NRK for commissioning Fionnuala based on my theatre piece, and wow wahoo that it's on the shortlist for the famous Prix Italia. I just hope it's another small step in lifting the lid off the media obfuscation on what has been done in Erris in the past sixteen years. It's incredible the lengths you have to go to to tell the truth about what's happening in Ireland. It's also encouraging that it's possible to get around obstacles. I take great inspiration from Richard O' Donnell and the way he has made such impact with his tv documentaries The Pipe and Atlantic. Where there's a will there's a way. http://www.prixitalia.rai.it/…/SHORT-LISTED-PROGRAMMES-4e67…

Posted Date: 
1 October 2016