Erin Brockovich, the campaigner immortalised in an Oscar-winning film, today urged oil giant Shell to reroute a controversial gas pipeline in the west of Ireland.

ERIN Brockovich grew up in Lawrence, Kansas, the youngest child of an industrial engineer and a journalist.

ARGUABLY the most toxic substance found at the former Irish Steel site in Cork is chromium 6, a deadly chemical which became the focus of a multi-million dollar lawsuit in America and later the subject of an Oscar-winning film.

A FORMER employee has sued US environmental crusader and movie subject Erin Brockovich and the head of her law firm for allegedly wiretapping her phone after she filed a sexual harassment complaint against Ms Brockovich’s boss, lawyer Edward Masry.

The legal team of Ed Masry and Erin Brockovich, whose investigations into corporate toxic pollution led to the hit film Erin Brockovich, are working on another case which has aroused Hollywood’s interest.

The real-life Erin Brockovich is to begin her new career as America's version of Anneka Rice.

A lawyer who tried to extort $310,000 from Erin Brockovich and her boss has been sentenced to four months in jail.