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August 2013

Shell alcohol for the Garda: Christmas gift or bribe?

By: 
John Donovan - RoyalDutchShellPLC.com

COMMENT BY A KNOWLEDGEABLE SOURCE ON SHELL SPONSORED ALCOHOL FOR THE GARDA: CHRISTMAS GIFT OR BRIBE?

John
 
Shell have a rule that gifts are acceptable up to a certain value – I don’t know the current figure, but 100 Euros would probably be about right.
 

Posted Date: 
21 August 2013

RTE Radio 1: Philip Boucher-Hayes investigates the OSSL allegations

By: 
John Donovan - RoyalDutchShellPLC.com

As can be seen from the transcript of a Drivetime segment broadcast on RTE Radio 1 yesterday evening, Shell has been cornered into making what is described as a much more robust denial of the allegations made by its former “Mr Fixit” in Ireland, OSSL.

In so doing, Shell appears to have given OSSL grounds for a defamation action.

I have redacted from the statement attributed to Shell the potentially defamatory words used by Shell and broadcast by RTE.

Posted Date: 
20 August 2013

Shell rejects claims over delivery of alcohol to Garda

By: 
Lorna Siggins - Irish Times

Shell E&P Ireland (Sepil) has said it “unequivocally rejects” the allegations “regarding delivery at any time of alcohol to An Garda Siochána” on its behalf by a former contractor, OSSL.

In a statement issued yesterday, the company said it “also therefore rejects the claim that OSSL were paid for delivering alcohol to the Garda”.

Posted Date: 
20 August 2013

RTE Radio 1 - Did Shell give the Gardai alcohol?

By: 
Drivetime - RTE Radio 1
 
Philip Boucher-Hayes investigates the allegations made by a sub-contractor on the Corrib project.
 
Included at the end of the radio piece is an interview with Desmond Kane, a director of OSSL.
 
Posted Date: 
19 August 2013

Ossl email to Shell CEO Peter Voser re confirmation of alcohol gifts (bribes?)

By: 
John Donovan - RoyalDutchShellPLC.com

Today we have learned that confirmation of alcohol distribution by SHELL CORRIB DIRECTORS in Ireland has taken place ..confirming what we have been telling you all along.

EMAIL FROM OSSL TO SHELL CEO PETER VOSER RE CONFIRMATION OF ALCOHOL GIFTS (BRIBES?)

From: Des <deskane1@hotmail.com>
Date: 19 August 2013 11:20:01 BST
To: Peter Voser <peter.p.voser@shell.com>
Subject: New confirmation of alcohol deliveries by Shell

My Dearest Peter ,

Posted Date: 
19 August 2013

87 pages of comments on Garda bribery story on Politics.ie

By: 
Politics.ie

[Shell to Sea]  Despite the massive interest in the Garda bribery story on public forums the Irish media have barely covered the story, with RTE ignoring it totally still.

Gardai get €70,000 worth of booze from Shell as a "gift"

Posted Date: 
18 August 2013

Shell contractor delivered three loads of booze to gardai

By: 
Áine Ryan - Sunday Times

THE contractor in a dispute with Shell over the delivery of a large consignment of alcohol to Belmullet garda station before Christmas 2007 now claims that the multinational oil giant also paid it to deliver more “modest” quantities of alcohol to the station in 2005 and 2006.

OSSL, the contractor on the Corrib gas project that Shell allegedly hired to make the deliveries, claims “the same pattern” occurred in 2005 and 2006, but “the delivery on both these occasions was modest”.

Posted Date: 
18 August 2013

Donal O'Kelly's Brace - Fionnuala

By: 
TheStage

Magic riffs with a beautiful incongruity through the first of Donal O'Kelly's brace of one-man shows, playing on alternate nights. In the full pinstripe attire of the businessman used to being obeyed, O'Kelly recounts a story which slips from real events in current Irish life into the world of myth and fairy tale.

Posted Date: 
18 August 2013

Where is my defamation writ from Shell?

By: 
John Donovan - RoyalDutchShellPLC.com

Members of the news media: give Shell and the Garda PR people a call. See if you can obtain a straightforward denial from either that the events revealed in The Observer article took place?  At the moment you are being deceived by trickery into believing that Shell and the Garda are innocent of the charges, when in fact they are guilty as hell.

Posted Date: 
16 August 2013

OSSL EMAIL TO SHELL AND THE GARDA

By: 
John Donovan - RoyalDutchShellPLC.com
 

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Posted Date: 
16 August 2013