"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
Nigel Wright
"I'm just wondering if we have got into a design rut here, a groove, because of the previous operating conditions and that's driven the thinking and it is a chance to stand back on that thinking"
Rossport Solidarity Camp
"The struggle against Shell is a struggle for everyone in Ireland. You can be part of it."
An Taisce
“Ireland has the highest per capita level of actions and judgements by the European Court of Justice against any nation state in relation to breaches of Environmental Directives, namely Waste, Water, Environmental Impact Assessment, Birds and Habitats. It would be an admirable legacy if the Green Ministers were to ensure their last Ministerial actions did not add to Ireland’s environmental and financial liability”
Martin Nolan
"The development is a major project by any measure. Notwithstanding that fact, the modified proposed 2010 development will have a remarkably light impact on the pristine environment of the area."
Pat O'Donnell
“How do the gardaí know there was no third-party involvement, when they did not set up checkpoints at ports after I had reported the sinking. My call was logged at 4.43am, and there was a sighting of a man getting into a car with a wetsuit on at Killala at around 7am”
Frederick Douglass
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
Nnimmo Bassey
"Shell ...has become a pseudo-political organization bent on taking political power and undermining our national interest, national security and our sovereignty.”
Brian Ó Catháin
"The impact [of the delays] is that Corrib will never pay tax"
Vicky Conway
"Its hard not to feel that this was an instance in which the gardaí were exercising their coercive power without authority. It was as if their job was to ensure that the pipes got laid, Jonathan was in the way, and if an arrest in this manner did not later lead to a conviction that was irrelevant: the pipes would be laid."