A GROUP of Independent TDs, led by Mayo deputy Dr Jerry Cowley, have called on Natural Resources Minister Noel Dempsey to resign over his handling of the Corrib gas pipeline dispute.

PROTESTORS yesterday blockaded the entrance to Shell’s Irish headquarters with bicycles as part of an international campaign against the Corrib gas pipeline.

Ireland’s oil and gas resources should be taken out of the hands of faceless multinationals and returned to local communities, a campaigner said tonight.

NOW that the Rossport Five are free I hope some reflection takes place and leadership is given. The Minister for Natural Resources has ordered a safety review and offered a mediator.

The so-called 'Rossport Five' are returning to Mayo today.

Five men jailed for the last 94 days in their battle to stop energy giant Shell building a gas pipeline walked free from court today.

Independent Dáil TDs today meet the Norwegian ambassador to push their case for the release of the Rossport Five opposed to a Shell gas pipeline in north Co Mayo.

IN the same week the Rossport Five were committed to Cloverhill Prison, American journalist Judith Miller also received the same tough love treatment for failing to cooperate with a US federal investigator.

Energy giant Shell today rejected calls to waive a High Court order in a bid to secure the release of five men jailed for protesting against the company’s controversial gas pipeline in Mayo.

LET’S play unlucky numbers... Colombia Three, Guilford Four, Rossport Five, Birmingham Six.

OBJECTORS to the controversial Mayo gas pipeline have described as too little, too late a ministerial order forcing Shell to dismantle a three-kilometre pipeline.

More than 1,000 people have attended a protest in Ballina this afternoon against the jailing of five men for attempting to prevent the building of a gas pipeline on their land in Co Mayo.

I NOTICED a large number of people protesting at the Four Courts in support of the Rossport Five.

THE civic obligation to bend one’s knee to the State and its courts ceases when that obligation directly conflicts with a man’s God-given moral duty to protect the lives of his loved ones.