When it comes to the Rossport Five, Galway City is the New Jerusalem or just another crocodile tear?

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Sunday September 04, 2005 18:46

by Tommy Donnellan - Shell to Sea

Never mind the bollocks heading, here's the real Mc Coy.

From Monday to Friday, Galway Shell to Sea activists have been outside Lynch's Castle in Shop Street for six hours daily (yesterday's stint was eight hours) leafleting the pedestrians on the plight of the Rossport Five, taking petition signatures - close to 11,000 so far and selling at cost or with an extra fifty cents added, handsome A5 size postcards to be sent to the Five in Cloverhill prison - an average of 125 are sold daily.

On Thursday evening, from 6PM to 7PM the Statoil Service Stations at Cemetery Cross and Headford Road along with the Westside Shell Station were picketed/blockaded.

More of the same is planned for the coming week.

With a black background and the Cloverhill address of the Five on the back, this is the image we are using for the postcard. Please emulate?.

Maura spent a few hours with us last Monday.

Maura and Martin Kelly, son of peace activist, Mary.

John, whacking and screwdriving our table into shape, in a background, eavedropping on the proceedings, a Shell stool pigeon - the fucker ended up in a pie.

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Solidarity is the lifeblood of a successful campaign

by Mary Kelly

Mon Sep 05, 2005 14:38

Great photos and Galway truly leading the way with constant robust street work.
Good on ye!

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Sun Sep 04, 2005 19:16

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Outside the castle, young Saoirse, daughter of Dottie in the foreground.

"67 Days Now" : From Lto R, Socialist Party, Shane. buskers, Kieran and Colm with Fran Tobin, the Chicago activist who's heading back home today after putting the awe on all of us the past few months with his powerful unstinting support.