July 2010

Beat the Boreholes continued yesterday with a walk on the strands of the estuary in the evening and leisurely paddle out earlier in the afternoon.

A Dublin-based campaigner against the Corrib Gas project has told a court hearing in Belmullet that a desire to "protect life" prompted him to commit a number of public order offences.

Eoin Lawless, 10 Charlestown Drive, Finglas, Dublin 11, claimed he had reasonable excuse to climb onto the cab of a moving truck working on the project because he "put life above private property".  The defendant pleaded not guilty to charges of willful obstruction, failing to comply with a direction of a garda and breach of the peace on June 10 last.

THE Corrib gas project has been delayed by at least another three years with gas now not expected to be brought ashore before 2013 at the earliest.

The Western People has learned that Shell’s tunnel through Sruwaddacon Bay will take up to two years to construct. The tunnel is a key component in the revised plans submitted by the exploration company to An Bord Pleanála in response to concerns about the safety of its preferred pipeline route from the landfall at Glengad to the terminal at Bellanaboy.

CORRIB gas protestor and Erris fisherman, Pat O’Donnell has revealed his prison term proved ‘to be traumatic for his wife, his children and his 91-year-old mother, Mary O’Donnell’.
However, Mr O’Donnell, known locally as The Chief, told The Mayo News yesterday he will continue to oppose the controversial project.
“The project is wrong and when something is wrong you have to stand up against it. After a holiday with my wife, Mary, I will be back out fishing in Broadhaven Bay in a few weeks time,” O’Donnell said.