The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, Amnesty, the Council for Civil Liberties and One in Four have all condemned comments allegedly made by gardaí in Co Mayo, in which they allegedly joked about threatening to rape a female anti-Shell protestor who had been arrested.

There are some, indeed plenty of, excellent documentaries hitting our cinema screens these days and this one, close to home, fits the bill to perfection with its classic David and Goliath story of a rural community pitted against the combined, ruthlessly uncaring, power of corporate clout and government compliance.

YOUR editorial (April 28) began well, but quickly deteriorated into the usual inaccurate and criminalising caricature of the protest by people against Shell in Co Mayo.

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.

Energy giant Shell today strongly denied any involvement in the alleged sinking of a trawler carrying protesters opposed to its controversial new gas terminal in Ireland.

Gardaí and environmentalists have clashed tonight at the site of a controversial gas pipeline on the west coast of Ireland.

Fifteen masked men armed with iron bars and chains broke into energy giant Shell’s gas terminal in north Mayo, it was revealed today.

GARDAÍ arrested 12 protesters yesterday following clashes between Shell workers and locals on a Mayo beach.

A small village at the centre of the Corrib gas controversy will be sliced in half by the newly-proposed pipeline route, campaigners claimed today.

Anti-Shell campaigner Willie Corduff has won the prestigious European Goldman environmental prize.

Shell is making an application at the High Court to discontinue proceedings against four Rossport local residents about the route of the Corrib gas pipeline.

THE five men imprisoned over the Shell gas project yesterday hit out at Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy over riot gardaí being deployed to Mayo.

UP to 300 angry protesters clashed with gardaí in north Mayo yesterday as anti-Shell campaigners were bussed into the region from all around the country.

Protests at the Corrib gas terminal continue this morning as 170 gardaí arrive to escort Shell employees to the site.

IT was power versus prayer at the Corrib Gas terminal in Mayo yesterday as one of the world’s largest oil companies was faced down by protesters reciting the rosary.

The President of the High Court will give his judgement next month on whether the Rossport Five should be punished for their anti-pipleine protest.

Talk of a mediator being drafted in to help resolve the dispute over the controversial gas pipeline on the Mayo coast is a joke, the Rossport Five claimed tonight.

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.

WHAT’S happening to us can happen to anyone: that was the message from the wives of the Rossport Five as they called for public backing for a national rally in support of the men.

Lawyers for five Mayo men battling against a controversial gas pipeline were today urged to meet legal representatives from energy giant Shell to thrash out a compromise.

A company was appointed today to conduct an independent safety review of the controversial Corrib Gas pipeline in Co Mayo.

Five men jailed for their protests against the construction of a controversial gas pipeline in Co Mayo will remain in prison despite oil giant Shell’s announcement it was suspending work on the project, it emerged today.

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.

The Minster for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources Noel Dempsey has ordered oil giant Shell to dismantle a three-kilometre gas pipeline in the west of Ireland which had been constructed without permission.

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.

Five protesters against gas pipelines being built by Shell in the west of Ireland were returned to jail today after an attempted peace deal failed.

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.

A BRITISH company that won a State contract to carry out an independent safety review of Shell’s pipeline plans for North Mayo was not asked whether it had any business dealings with Shell.

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.

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.