"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
Garin Dowd
"With the recent publication of Lorna Siggins’ book on the same topic, this documentary serves to remind us that the neo-liberal ceding of sovereignty by the state, abetted by the state’s commitment to corporations rather than its citizens, is at the root of the ongoing struggle in a remote outpost of Ireland."
Majella McCarron
"Our flawed political systems have all the apperance of a benign dictatorship."
James Laffey
"[Future historians] will wonder, for example, how an Irish Government could surrender its natural resources to private enterprise, particularly when the deal was brokered by a corrupt former minister, Ray Burke, in a private meeting with oil and gas bosses. They will wonder, too, how millions of euro could be spent on paying gardaí to provide private security for a multinational whose annual profits regularly top €15 billion. And, most of all, they will wonder how a democratic State could desert its own citizens – decent, law-abiding people who never had any truck with trouble – at their gravest hour of need."
Paddy Briggs
"This really is a very beautiful part of the world and you cannot be surprised that those living there want to keep it just as it is. Human nature is very resilient and it is no exaggeration to say that those who have protested, have been to prison, have gone on hunger strike and who have explored every legal and other angle to achieve their objectives have undoubtedly raised the stakes for any corporation planning a similar major project in the future"
Caoimhe Kerins
“While people in Ireland are suffering in a recession, being told to tighten their belts, to grin and bear the painful cuts to health, education and their dole, the pension levy, the giant oil companies of the world are preparing to remove Ireland’s valuable natural resources and divvy up the billions of euro of profits between their shareholders”
Liamy McNally
"Nobody can read this and not be affected by the sheer brutality of facts that form the history of the Corrib Gas story. The story is one of human pain, loss, community division, betrayal, grief, political opportunism, corporate greed, monumental lies, statutory incompetence, Governmental folly and treachery. How will it ever be explained to future generations that the state could employ hundreds of Gardaí to stand alongside members of a private security firm, backed up by the Irish Navy in defiance of members of a local community?"
Richard O'Donnell
"I felt that, what I was shooting and the story I was seeing playing out, and the issues I was seeing playing out, weren't being transmitted properly through the media. The media had turned this story from a battle of small farmers and fishermen versus an oil company, into a story of idealogically damaged people versus the state."
Justice Day O'Connor
'The specter of condemnation hangs over all property. Nothing is to prevent the State from replacing any Motel 6 with a Ritz-Carlton, any home with a shopping mall, or any farm with a factory... Any property may now be taken for the benefit of another private party, but the fallout from this decision will not be random. The beneficiaries are likely to be those citizens with disproportionate influence and power...the government now has licence to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more'
Phil Crossthwaite
"Beyond that 273 metres distance [from the pipeline] people are safe."
Fr. Michael Nallen
“Just because we are not living in John Gormley’s constituency does not mean we don’t have human rights”