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December 2011

Rossport Solidarity Camp - Join the Resistance!

 

Rossport Solidarity Camp - Join the Resistance!
Come to camp - All welcome
Thanks to Intinn for the use of their song ' Come Away'

Posted Date: 
26 December 2011

Shell Claus

By: 
black betty - santa claus appreciation society - Indymedia

[Shell to Sea] Happy Christmas & New Year. 

Shell Claus the black pariah of the Claus family is out to take rather than to give. Santa's younger brother has often been compared to Lucifer the dark angel. Rather than give presents, Shell Claus comes to take away what you have and destroy it. His betrayal of the spirit of thanksgiving often brings Santa to tears. In Ireland, Shell Claws has come to visit all the houses in the Erris area, offering false gifts to seduce people, but then afterwards betraying even those who give him their trust. 

 
                                
The Real Santa Claus                        vs                    Shell Claws (widely suspected to be John Egan)

Shell Claws is a master of disguise and sometimes can actually be mistaken for Santa Claus. He offers gifts, but only in the hope of taking away more and ultimately destroying what you have.

Posted Date: 
22 December 2011

Email - Thank you so much from Mullumbimby , Australia

By: 
A - Mullumbimby , Australia

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Posted Date: 
20 December 2011

Three days of action against Shell

By: 
Campers at - Rossport Solidarity Camp - Indymedia

Protesters give Shell an early Christmas present

The Shell to Sea campaign is still running strong 11 years after the inception of the Corrib gas project. Everyday people are becoming aware of the people's struggle against Shell, but still more are needed to come and see for themselves and save our country from the global corporate takeover.

Posted Date: 
14 December 2011

Court Report on “rape-tape” Sergeant being awarded €33,0000

By: 
C - Rossport Solidarity Camp - Indymedia

Barrister Leo Mulrooney to ex-Sgt James Gill - “Complete the now well-known phrase 'Give me your name and address or I'll...' “
Ex-Sgt James Gill - “I don't understand the question”
Barrister Leo Mulrooney - “Do you know what I'm referring to when I say those words”
Ex-Sgt James Gill - “No”
Leo Mulrooney - “'Give me your name and address or ...' “
Judge Margaret Heneghan interrupts - “He said 'No', next question”

Posted Date: 
13 December 2011

Former garda wins defamation case against ‘The Chief’

By: 
Áine Ryan - Mayo News

A FORMER garda sergeant has been awarded €33,000 damages in a defamation case he took against a leading member of the Corrib gas protest.
Mr James Gill claimed that north Mayo fisherman, Pat O’Donnell,  known locally as The Chief, accused him, within the earshot of protestors and gardaí, of stealing diesel and of smuggling tyres, during a protest at Ballinaboy, on November 3, 2006.

Posted Date: 
13 December 2011

Erris News December 2011

By: 
Erris News Collective

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Posted Date: 
11 December 2011

Shell and The Children of Lir

By: 
Kevin G - Erris News December 2011

According to Shell’s latest Corrib Gas update, The tunnel boring machine (TBM) that is planned to tunnel under Sruwadducon Bay  has been named ‘Fionnuala’ in ‘honour’ of the children of Lir.


Children of Lir statue at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin

Posted Date: 
11 December 2011

€33,000 awarded to 'rape tape' case sergeant

By: 
Daniel McConnell - Sunday Independent

A FORMER Garda sergeant who was awarded €33,000 in a defamation case against a Shell to Sea protester, was yesterday identified as the officer involved in the "rape tape" scandal earlier this year.

James Gill, 52, of Crossmolina, Co Mayo, who retired from the force last month, won his action for damages against leading Corrib Gas protester Pat O'Donnell, known as 'the Chief'.

Mr Gill claimed that he was branded a thief and a smuggler in loud comments made in public by Mr O'Donnell, 54, of Porturlin, Ballina, Co Mayo.

Posted Date: 
11 December 2011

‘Rape-tape’ sergeant awarded €33,000 in unrelated defamation case

Issued by Shell to Sea - Saturday, December 10th, 2011

The Garda Sergeant who was recorded saying, “Give me your name and address or I’ll rape you!” last March has been awarded €33,000 plus legal costs for alleged damage to his reputation in an unrelated defamation case against fisherman and Shell to Sea campaigner Pat ‘The Chief’ O’Donnell.

 

James Gill, a former Garda Sergeant, claimed that O’Donnell – star of the award-winning documentary ‘The Pipe’ – had said during a Corrib Gas protest on November 3rd 2006,  that Gill had stolen diesel and smuggled tyres. Gill claimed that these comments had exacerbated a pre-existing gastric condition and had caused him psychological injury and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

Mr O’Donnell denied the claim and told the court he had been speaking about diesel that had been stolen from him in 1997 or 1998 which had remained unsolved but that his comments weren’t directed at Mr Gill.