"About 120 protesters outside Mullingar station Ming Flanagan, Maura Harrington, etc. Supporting McCabe. M" - Ex-Garda Commissioner Callinan
"You can judge a man by his friends" Brian Purcell - SG of Dept of Justice
"Some shower Brian" Callinan
Dr Bríd Connolly
“This recording is an affront to women, an affront to freedom to protest, and rape is not a joking matter. How can women who have been assaulted have any confidence in the Garda if this is the sort of attitude that prevails? It undermines the work done with the Garda by rape crisis centres and Women’s Aid, and takes us back 40 to 50 years”
William Callaghan
"Since my first visit to the Rossport area in May 2005, I have returned too often to count. So why are people like me drawn to this place? It’s not just its natural beauty, though that is a factor. It’s not just the inspiring spirit, determination and brave direct action of a people under siege in an isolated community, though that is something that has brought tears to my eyes and changes to my outlook on life.
Mainly it is because the Corrib Gas saga raises the question: what kind of society do we want to live in?"
Padraig McManus
"We are not going to get Corrib Gas cheaper than gas from anywhere else. You know gas is an international commodity so we'll pay the same price as getting it it from the UK"
Fintan O'Toole
"Economic and scientific elites are prey to delusions that the unlikely will not happen. The rest of us pick up the pieces when it does."
Ferdia - S2S Erris
"We, the people of Erris who can see further than the next instalment of Shell Blood Money, salute and thank each and every man and woman who has stood with us and continues to do so. ...[I] for one, am proud to be part of something which has transcended the usual definition of protest, and become a phenomenon which, even as we speak, is changing hearts and minds locally, nationally and internationally in ways that even we can't fully envisage at the moment.
Be proud and stand tall."
John Burke
"The [EPA] advisory committee also revealed in its submission that Ireland accounted for 75 per cent of all outstanding European Court of Justice (ECJ) rulings on breaches of environmental legislation."
Submission from Rossport Solidarity Camp to Bord Pleanala
"To quote UCD Professor of Economics, Morgan Kelly from a recent newspaper article “It is no longer a question of whether Ireland will go bust, but when.”
How is the state going to buy back its gas from Shell if the country is bankrupt?"
Joe Higgins
“This is just outrageous and it is grotesque that a government whose credibility has been shattered and that has been utterly disowned by the Irish electorate would make such a momentous decision ...
This is an attempt to complete the total sell-out by Fianna Fáil to the multinationals. Mr Carey is putting the final stamp on this monumental and shameful sell-out."
Tony O’Reilly Snr
“Since I own 35 per cent of the newspapers in Ireland I have close contact with the politicians. I got the [exploration] blocks he [his geoloist] wanted.”
Risteard Ó Domhnaill
"Last but not least, I want to thank the people of this small, beautiful, some would say insignificant part of Ireland, Rossport. At a time when the leaders of our country put the resources of the state at the behest of huge private interests, it's their dignity and their courage which should be an inspiration for people everywhere around the country who are suffering now."