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mayo / environment / news report Monday September 15, 2008 22:57 by Sam (text), Simon (photo's)
 9 comments (last - wednesday september 17, 2008 14:53)  20 images
Today Maura Harrington marked her birthday with a seventh day on hunger strike, while supporters from the UK & Ireland demonstrated across London to bring attention to her protest. Maura, a teacher in NW Mayo, is part of the Shell To Sea Campaign which has been actively opposing Shell's latest attempts to lay an 80 km sea based stretch of gas pipeline. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Monday September 15, 2008 20:26 by Contaminated Crow
This week incinerators, pylons, pig farm, a bio park and land access read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday September 15, 2008 19:40 by TD
6 comments (last - tuesday september 16, 2008 21:43) 7 images
At today's gathering of the FF faithful in Galway, Cowen warned that Ireland is facing "much tougher" economic times, unfortunately, at the chic 4-Star Clayton hotel, venue of the "think-in" the hard times were very much in abeyance with designer nosh dished up at lunch time by that establishment's "world class chef." Meanwhile, outside the gates of Shell's Glengad compound, Maura Harrington was on Day 7 of her hunger strike with a supine, anesthetized mainstream media barely reporting on her plight. read full story / add a comment 
national / environment / news report Monday September 15, 2008 15:02 by shell to sea
1 comment (last - monday september 15, 2008 16:35) 5 images  1 video file
Activists from different backgrounds came along to a 1PM protest in support of the actions taken in the last week against Shell and the Irish government. Hundreds of leaflets were distributed and many passing motorists beeped their horns in support. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / opinion/analysis Monday September 15, 2008 10:24 by John Baker
10 comments (last - monday september 22, 2008 17:17)
Let’s plant trees in Erris. Let’s plant a f**k load of trees in Erris. Let’s plant enough trees to balance out any past and future damage done by Shell or other invaders and indeed by ourselves, for we are all part of the same fossil fuel based economy with our cars, our boats, our flights abroad, our central heating and our food from far away, and given this maybe it’s not enough to fight against the system that left us with no choice but to be part of it, perhaps it falls to us to create something different, to demonstrate our commitment to another reality and to get our own bodies involved in the building of it. read full story / add a comment |
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