Posts Tagged ‘MAURA HARRINGTON’

Shell to Sea spokeswoman Maura Harrington said “Shell, despite all their talk of being ‘good neighbours’, said nothing to anyone” until the radio station was alerted. Shell said the accidental severing of a gas pipe at its plant at Ballinaboy, Co Mayo, posed “no danger to the environment” and the company was investigating the circumstances. [...]

In a report submitted to the UN Human Right Council last Monday (4th March), the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders Margaret Sekaggya, called on the Irish Government to “Investigate all allegation and reports of intimidation, harassment and surveillance in the context of the Corrib Gas dispute in a prompt and impartial manner”. [1] Mrs [...]

“Any implication that Allseas is any way involved in, or supported by, a political agenda – including any reference to conspiracy, criminality and non-transparent business relationships – is completely unfounded and refuted in the strongest possible terms.” By John Donovan I was recently approached by a party who made serious allegations against the Swiss-based Allseas [...]

By John Donovan Printed below is a leaked email to a Shell EP Ireland manager, Mr Brian Foley, sent by a thoroughly disenchanted local supplier to the Corrib Gas Project in Ireland, an enterprise dogged by controversy. This includes several months imprisonment of local landowners, the Rossport Five and a hunger-strike by another jailed campaigner, [...]

3 August 2012 (Evening) IRISH TIMES REPORTERS A giant tunnel boring machine belonging to Shell, which became stuck on Tuesday after the lorry it was being transported on jack-knifed at an isolated Co Mayo crossroads, has been removed. A spokesman for Mayo County Council said the junction at Glenamoy crossroads near the villages of Rossport [...]

Friday, August 3, 2012, 10:37 ÁINE RYAN More than 100 gardaí escorted a convoy of heavy vehicles to the isolated Glenamoy crossroads in north Mayo at about 4.30am this morning in a bid to free Shell’s giant tunnel boring machine. A spokesman for Rossport Solidarity Camp said the gardaí implemented checkpoints from about 10km away [...]

Shell machine remains stuck AINE RYAN Shell’s giant tunnel boring machine is expected to remain at an isolated Co Mayo crossroads for a third night, as residents questioned the ability of the boggy road to withstand the weight of heavy removal vehicles and some protestors vowed to continue their actions. A Mayo County Council spokesman [...]

By John Donovan On Tuesday 3 April, a film crew from a national TV broadcaster spent 7 hours filming at my home in Colchester and nearby locations. The filming continued outside the Shell Centre for 3 hours yesterday. I am indebted to all who assisted, including Shell to Sea spokesperson, Maura Harrington. The feature is [...]

The Irish Times – Tuesday, November 22, 2011 ÁINE RYAN SHELL HAS announced the appointment of a new managing director at the Corrib gas project. The communique came as local protest groups yesterday declined an invitation to contribute to a joint Oireachtas committee hearing on offshore resources and their exploration. Michael Crothers is a Canadian [...]

Corrib gas objectors denied entry to Oireachtas hearing The Irish Times – Wednesday, September 28, 2011 PAUL CULLEN SECURITY STAFF at the Houses of the Oireachtas yesterday refused entry to a group of opponents of the Corrib gas terminal who had travelled from Co Mayo to attend an Oireachtas committee. The group of 15 Shell [...]

Issued by Shell to Sea Wednesday 20 th July 2011 – 11am Shell to Sea protest halts Shell’s peat works for second day At 10.30 am this morning Shell to Sea campaigners stopped work for the second day in a row at the Bord na Móna site at Shramore, near Bangor, Co. Mayo. They are [...]

Dear John, I’ve attached for your perusal up to the minute stuff connected with the proposed Shell/Corrib project in north Mayo. There are two attachments from the Peoples’ Forum proceedings held at the weekend – Mrs Joy Phido’s was printed as a supplement and included with the main copy of contributions. Mrs Phido’s willingness to [...]

Ed Vulliamy: The Observer, Sunday 29 May 2011 This land is our land: pipeline protesters Willie and Mary Corduff at the quay at Rossport. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod for the Observer If the sea is calm, you can hear the traffic in New York,” goes the local introduction to the breathtaking beauty of Erris, in the [...]

Corrib building blockaded as Shell AGM held in The Hague and London Áine Ryan: 17 May 2011 AS ROYAL Dutch Shell holds its AGM in The Hague and London today (Tuesday),  protestors blockaded the Corrib Natural Gas building in Belmullet, to highlight the giant oil company’s huge profits. The small group of Shell to Sea [...]

Tuesday, 05 April 2011 14:00 Well-known Shell to Sea activist Maura Harrington has given an undertaking to the Circuit Court not to interfere with workers employed by Shell in their operations at Glengad. The undertaking was given by her defence on behalf of Maura Harrington, Doohoma, Belmullet, who had custodial sentences imposed in the District [...]