July 2014

On Friday the 11th July, people started gathering for the art weekend in which murals and new campaign banner and signs were prepared. Straight away work on the house with the mural “The struggle goes on” was started along with the sign on the roof which reads “Strength in Community”.

Saturday wasn’t suitable for outside work so after a fair while designing what the signs should say, work commenced at a shed which we were kindly given the use of for the weekend.

The various signs included one quoting Kevin Moore, the first An Bord Pleanala Inspector who looked into the siting of the Refinery at Bellanaboy. In 2003, he labeled the proposed location as “the wrong site”.

CORRIB LIES AND COVER-UP

Former Irish Shell supplier OSSL, the “Mr Fixit” company that turned whistleblower over Shell corruption of the Garda, has today upped the defamation stakes still higher by putting posters on public display outside Shell EP Ireland HQ in Dublin.

A GARDA Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) investigation into allegations that certain gardaí, policing the Corrib gas project, received gifts of alcohol from Shell, has found ‘[no] evidence of the purchase or delivery of alcohol to garda stations, nor of any misconduct of garda members’. Both Shell E&P Ireland and An Garda Síochána welcomed the report but declined to comment to The Mayo News on whether they would take legal action against OSSL for possible reputational damage due to the public nature of the allegations.