MAY 8, 2009
THE PHOENIX MAGAZINE
ROSSPORT farmer Willie Corduff’s 20-hour protest under a truck at Shell Ireland’s Corrib gas pipeline landfall site at Glengad last month was terminated by a strange and unexplained series of events portrayed by the Gardai and media as a paramilitary assault. But the reports from the same sources simply don’t add up.
One of the famous Rossport five jailed for almost four months, Corduff had recently been involved in direct mediation talks with Shell brokered by Ministers Eamon O Cuiv and Eamon Ryan. These talks broke down early last month and it was no secret that Shell was delighted having hated the idea that two Cabinet members would elevate the status of a community Shell’s spin doctors have tried to pillory. Before the ink was dry or an attempt was made to re-engage, energy minister Eamon Ryan signed off on an environmental management plan which appeared to permit Shell to resume work on its pipeline landfall site at Glengad.
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