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.

The so-called Rossport Five, jailed for their contempt of a court order over protests against a controversial gas pipeline, will learn today whether they face further penalties.

The battle to stop energy company Shell building a controversial gas pipeline on the Co Mayo coast has only just begun, protesters claimed 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.

WE, the undersigned, support the Rossport Five in their demand for the natural resources of Ireland to be used for the benefit of the Irish people, and for those same resources to be extracted in a safe and environmentally friendly manner.

THE Rossport Five said they were “more defiant than ever” last night after their campaign claimed a minor coup with a decision by Shell to suspend its pipeline work off the Mayo coast.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern is “too busy” to meet with councillors in Mayo to discuss the case of the five men imprisoned because of their opposition to the controversial Corrib gas pipeline.

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.

A TOTAL of 56 jobs are to be axed at the site of a controversial gas pipeline on the Mayo coast, it was confirmed yesterday.

A total of 56 jobs are to be axed at the site of a controversial gas pipeline on the Mayo coast, it was confirmed today.

The five men jailed over protests against a pipeline from the Corrib gas field off the Mayo coast are the only people with the power to resolve the dispute, it was claimed today.

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.

SUPPORTERS of the five Mayo men jailed for opposing a gas pipeline near their homes picketed some Statoil service stations in the Dublin area yesterday.

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Dozens of supporters gathered outside Dublin’s High Court today as five Co Mayo men were returned to jail over their protest against a controversial gas pipeline.

Five men jailed for refusing to end their protest against a controversial gas pipeline are due back in court today, as the Government launches a new safety review of the project.

Over a thousand people staged a nationwide protest tonight to highlight the plight of the five men jailed over their objections to a gas pipeline in Co Mayo.

A nationwide protest is to take place today to highlight the plight of the five men jailed over their objections to a gas pipeline in Co Mayo.

Five men jailed for their opposition to a Shell gas pipeline in Mayo cannot rely on the quashing of the injunction against them to secure their release, a court heard today.

Five men jailed for their opposition to a Shell gas pipeline in the West of Ireland are to appear in court today in an attempt to win their release.

IT is a background many young men would play down in their sophisticated city lives, but the sons of Rossport, North Mayo, wear their heritage with pride.

RETIRED teachers Caitlín Úi Sheighin and her husband Micheál are already paying a high price for something they believe in — the time they have left together.

Supporters of the five men jailed over opposition to a gas pipeline being built across their Co Mayo lands today handed in a letter calling for the resignation of a minister.

AROUND 1,000 people joined a protest in Castlebar in Co Mayo yesterday over the jailing of five farmers who stopped the Shell Corrib gas pipeline from going through their land.

Two Sinn Féin members have occupied a petrol station in Dublin in protest at the jailing of five gas pipeline protesters.

THE five men jailed over protests against the Shell gas drilling operation in Mayo remain determined to continue their protest, said a TD who visited them in jail yesterday.

Five men jailed for their opposition to a gas pipeline today called for a public boycott of all petrol stations owned by Shell and Statoil.

COMMUNICATIONS Minister Noel Dempsey last night faced demands to intervene in the escalating dispute over a gas pipeline in Co Mayo that has resulted in five protesters being jailed for breaching a court order.