SHELL To Sea campaigner Maura Harrington has been arrested again after failing to pay fines she received for offences relating to protests against Shell’s Corrib gas pipeline.

Police chiefs tonight defended operations at the controversial Corrib gas project after a human rights body accused officers of acting unlawfully, failing to take protesters seriously and claimed a Superintendent misled the public.

Tánaiste and new Education Minister Mary Coughlan has warned national school teachers that the sector will not be immune from further cuts.

The story of the controversial Corrib Gas project told through the eyes of locals is expected to reach a world audience thanks to a groundbreaking new documentary.

Energy giant Shell has been told to re-route part of the controversial Corrib gas pipeline after planners today ruled it posed a safety risk.

ANTI-PIPELINE protesters in Mayo have vowed to continue with their campaign of opposition to Shell’s Corrib gas line development despite “extreme pressure from the state”.

Two leading Corrib gas activists were today jailed for four months after participating in demonstrations against energy giant Shell’s controversial project.

With the Shell protests escalating, both sides agree the reappearance of the Solitaire vessel will be decisive, writes Scott Millar.

PLANNING chiefs opened a public hearing into the controversial Corrib gas pipeline route as a prominent protestor was jailed for the second time in less than two months.

THANKS for your coverage (April 8) of the release of Shell to Sea protester Maura Harrington from Mountjoy jail.

Leading anti-Corrib gas activist Maura Harrington was today released from prison after being jailed over her protests.

A RETIRED school principal who is one of the most recognised of the Shell to Sea campaigners has been sent to jail.

THE Government’s promise of a talks forum to resolve bitter disputes over the controversial Corrib gas project descended into chaos yesterday.

The Government’s promise of a talks forum to resolve bitter disputes over the controversial Corrib gas project descended into chaos today.

ANTI-CORRIB gas pipeline protesters have given the latest Government bid to broker a deal in the bitter dispute a cool reception.

THE hunger strike undertaken by Maura Harrington was a frightening climax to years of non-violent protest on the part of a small community who wish to safeguard their children’s health and safety against the powerful oil companies.

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.

Shell to Sea protestor Maura Harrington has ended her hunger strike.

The Minister for the Environment has said it may be appropriate for his colleague the Energy Minister Eamon Ryan to meet with those involved in the Shell to Sea protest in north Mayo.

Four people have been arrested in Mayo in relation to an incident involving Shell to Sea campaigners at the weekend.

A number of politicians have signed a statement calling for Shell to put an end to a hunger strike being staged by campaigner Maura Harrington.

GARDA experts yesterday began examining the remnants of a bomb left at the entrance to Shell’s Dublin offices for forensic and fingerprint evidence.

Shell to Sea campaigners have today distanced themselves from the placing of an explosive device outside Shell's headquarters in Dublin.

I FOUND your editorial (‘Shell disruption — no support for protests’, September 11) amazingly one-sided for a paper that purports to be objective.

SHELL-TO-SEA protester Maura Harrington yesterday celebrated her 55th birthday by retiring from her school principal’s job and continuing her hunger strike against Shell’s work on the coastline of Co Mayo.

Veteran anti-Corrib campaigner Maura Harrington has said she is determined to continue with her hunger strike, despite the withdrawal of the Solitaire ship today.

The offshore pipe-laying works, due to get underway as part of the Corrib gas project at Broadhaven Bay in Co Mayo, have been suspended.

Two fishermen have been arrested in Glengad in Co Mayo today.

Three fishermen, arrested in Broadhaven Bay, Co Mayo yesterday have now been released without charge by gardaí.

A leading opponent of the controversial Corrib gasline went on hunger strike last night.

IT’S all about place, Maura Harrington says. Protect a place and it will protect its people.

A prominent member of the group protesting against the Corrib gas pipeline has been hospitalised after a confrontation with gardaí in Co Mayo this morning.

Gardaí in north Co Mayo have moved to break up the blockade mounted by local residents at the entrance to the Corrib gas terminal site in Bellanaboy.

ON the first anniversary of the jailing of the Rossport Five it is important to reassert that the people of Ireland, especially Mayo, continue to campaign for Shell to be sent to sea and for a renegotiation of the Corrib gas deal to benefit the people of Ireland and not Shell and their friends in business and government.

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.

A SIMPLE but significant ceremony yesterday marked the 94th day of the release of the Rossport Five, jailed last year for their opposition to Shell’s development of the Corrib gas fields.

THE controversy concerning the Centre for Public Inquiry is cast as a tussle about the respective bona fides of Frank Connolly and Michael McDowell.

Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny has welcomed Shell's decision to defer work on the controversial Corrib gas pipeline in his native Mayo.

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.

SHELL’S breach of regulations governing work on the controversial Mayo gas pipeline means that the basis for which five men were jailed must be challenged, Labour leader Pat Rabbitte has claimed.

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Residents from the Rossport area of Co Mayo are due to mount a demonstration outside the headquarters of the Shell oil company in Dublin this afternoon.

THERE were fresh calls last night to change the country’s oil exploration taxes, which are the lowest in the world.