In an attempt to improve relations, Shell recruited John Egan, a former BBC journalist and Mayo native, in late 2005. Â James Laffey, the editor of The Western People, has confirmed that Egan sent him six bottles of wine before Christmas 2005 but that he returned them.
The Sunday Times
Times Website Headline: Shell’s contractor delivered three loads of booze to gardaiâ
Newspaper headline: Fresh claims against Shell in alcohol row
Published 18 August 2013 Ireland
By Aine Ryan
A contractor in a dispute with Shell over a delivery of a large consignment of alcohol to Belmullet garda station before Christmas 2007 claims that the oil giant also paid it to deliver liquor loads to the station in 2005 and 2006.
OSSL, a contractor on the Corrib gas project which Shell allegedly hired to make the deliveries, claims “the same pattern†occurred in 2005 and 2006, but “the delivery on both these occasions was modestâ€.