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February 2015

Protest has a vital place in a healthy democracy

By: 
Ciaran Tierney
When I was 16, the President of the United States visited my home town. It was a massive event for Galway and, fuelled by the passion which often drives people at that age, I attended a mass protest against the decision by University College Galway (now NUIG) to award an honorary degree to Ronald Reagan.
 
By that stage, people knew that his Government had been involved in war crimes in the Middle East and Latin America. His funding of people like Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan and sale of chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein in Iraq was widely known, but that did not stop the city fathers from closing down the city centre and rolling out the red carpet in his honour.
Posted Date: 
23 February 2015

Today with Sean O'Rourke discussing Corrib Gas

By: 
RTE

Regina Hennelly joined Sean in studio to discuss the progress of the Corrib Gas project and says that Shell say that the gas will flow from summertime this year.

Listen to it here:

http://www.rte.ie/radio/utils/radioplayer/rteradioweb.html#!type=radio&rii=9%3A20731134%3A15036%3A19%2D02%2D2015%3A

 

Posted Date: 
23 February 2015

WSM on Corrib

By: 
Workers Solidarity Movement

RTE Radio 1 just broadcast another retrospective on resistance to Shell's Corrib project. As with previous efforts it failed to describe any of the victories won by community resistance or the role of the state and in particular the Garda in repressing that resistance. There was a brief chuckle between the presenters when Maura Harrington made the obvious link to the way the state has treated communities resisting the water charges, 7 people will probably be jailed this morning as part of that resistance.

Posted Date: 
23 February 2015

The Best Small Town in Ireland to Hold a Protest

By: 
Reality Ireland - YouTube

Fine Gael Ard Fheis 2015
Sat 21 February
TF Royal Hotel

Posted Date: 
18 February 2015

INTERVIEW Michael Crothers, outgoing MD, Shell E&P Ireland

By: 
Áine Ryan - Mayo News

Michael Crothers, outgoing Managing Director of Shell.
SAYING GOODBYE Michael Crothers, outgoing Managing Director of Shell. Pic: Keith Heneghan
 

Posted Date: 
18 February 2015

Shell E&P Ireland CEO says Irish planning system is ‘adversarial’

By: 
Lorna Siggins - Irish Times

Outgoing Michael Crothers also says Corrib gas project needed better ‘engagement’

Outgoing head of Shell E&P Ireland Michael Crothers has said that the Irish planning system is “adversarial”, and mediation could replace “resorting to the courts”.

Posted Date: 
12 February 2015

RTE's recent coverage on Corrib

By: 
Pat McGrath - RTE

Six One News - Wednesday 11th February 2015

Shell hoping to process gas from Corrib field in coming months

http://www.rte.ie/news/player/2015/0211/20726556-shell-hoping-to-process...

 

Six One News - Tuesday 10th February 2015

First gas from Corrib Field to proceed in coming months

http://www.rte.ie/news/player/2015/0210/20725782-first-gas-from-corrib-f...

 

Posted Date: 
11 February 2015

Garda brutality - All of This Has Happened Before

By: 
Workers Solidarity Movement

All of This Has Happened Before - Garda brutality, from Rossport to anti-water charges protests

Garda assaulting community protesters and the media not reporting? Dawn raids and heavy handed arrests? Politicians spinning greater and greater lies about 'sinister fringes' and dissidents? What's happening now to Water Charge resistors happened to the people of Rossport a few years back and we can learn from their determined resistance.

Posted Date: 
10 February 2015

Corrib on Morning Ireland

By: 
Pat McGrath - Morning Ireland - RTE

Pat McGrath, Western Correspondent, reports that gas is expected to come ashore from the controversial Corrib Gas Field within months

http://www.rte.ie/radio/utils/radioplayer/rteradioweb.html#!type=radio&rii=9%3A20725187%3A48%3A10%2D02%2D2015%3A

 

Posted Date: 
10 February 2015

Tributes paid to journalist and economist Colm Rapple

By: 
Christina Finn - TheJournal.ie

[Shell to Sea]  Colm Rapple was outspoken on the great gas & oil giveaway and wrote widely on the subject (http://colmrapple.com/?cat=7) and also spoke at a People's Forum in 2011 (http://www.shelltosea.com/content/peoples-forum-ten-years-corrib-gas-gre...).  Rest in Peace

JOURNALIST, ECONOMIST AND author, Colm Rapple has died after a short illness in hospital.

Posted Date: 
1 February 2015