Taste the Atlantic is a seafood journey that stretches south from Erris in Co Mayo to Connemara and on to Galway Bay.

A cattle dealer arrested during a rally weekend in Killarney, Co Kerry, after driving at 120kph through the town in the early hours is to pay €5,000 to the court poor box and is to have a speed limiter fitted to all vehicles he drives.

Three men who appeared before special courts held throughout the weekend to deal with dangerous driving activity surrounding the annual Rally of the Lakes have been warned at Killarney District Court they could face jail.

A 25-year-old man could have been driving at a speed of 120km/h through the busy streets of Killarney, Co Kerry, early on Saturday, a court has been told.

Ireland is in the midst of a massive popular awakening as hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets to protest the introduction of water charges, suggests Andrew Flood.

Between March 30, 1883 and May 30, 1884, a Quaker named James Hack Tuke organised 11 ships to go on 15 sailings: nine to Boston and six to Québec, to transport 3,300 men, women and children from dirt-poor — (literally) — families from Elly Bay, a small inlet of Blacksod Bay in north-west Mayo, to make a better life for themselves in the ‘New World’.

The Government has launched its first offshore licensing round for three years, adding that its revised fiscal terms for incoming operators should encourage new investment in Irish waters.

The Normandy beach landings were deferred on the say-so of the Blacksod lighthouse keeper, and victory was assured, says Dan McCarthy

A Mayo Fine Gael County Councillor is calling on the Department of the Environment to include dozens of homes in Erris which are effected by pyrite in the Government's compensation scheme.

A group of environmental activists have staged a protest against oil and gas giant Shell today.

Your editorial of Monday, Oct 15 asked who would benefit from the oil drilling.

Efforts to move a jack- knifed 160-tonne truck carrying machinery for a contentious gas project were deemed farcical yesterday by campaigners.

Efforts to move a jack-knifed 160-ton truck carrying machinery for Shell’s Corrib gas project are farcical, campaigners have claimed.

Tensions continue to run high in Co Mayo as a truck carrying machinery for the controversial Corrib gas project remains stuck at a junction.

There was a tense stand-off between gardaí and protesters yesterday as a machine for tunnelling under a picturesque bay in Co Mayo was brought in by contractors for Shell.

There was a tense stand-off between protesters and gardaí today as a machine to tunnel under a picturesque bay was brought in by contractors for Shell.

Jerrie Ann Sullivan, one of the women who made a recording public in the Garda "rape tape" controversy, has said that the Garda Ombudsman investigation into the incident has been "about protecting An Garda Síochána".

The Garda watchdog has urged the force’s chief to take disciplinary action against one officer over an investigation into the “rape tape” controversy.

WHAT sort of President for the Áras will we have next month?

Up to 20 TDs, along with Dublin Shell to Sea are today calling on the new Government to reverse consents granted to Shell for the onshore section of the Corrib gas pipeline.

LOCAL opponents of the Corrib Gas project in Co Mayo have rejected a Shell Ireland offer to discuss changes to the route of a controversial onshore pipeline while a leading Shell-to-Sea activist remains in jail.

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

PEOPLE living on a peninsula in West Cork were celebrating yesterday as they were officially awarded the title of European Destination of Excellence.

The Energy Minister and the Minister for Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs were in the west today to hear the views of local people from Erris in Co Mayo on the controversial Corrib gas pipeline.

IN their letters (September 13), Seán Ó Riain and Fergal Scully identify to some degree the problems we have here with the Corrib gas project where people from afar tells us what is good for us.

IF the Green agenda is really going to mean anything at all in terms of communities, habitats, resources and the environment, I suggest Environment Minister John Gormley and his colleagues consider kissing Fianna Fáil and the PD coalition goodbye in defence of all who stand to lose so much in Glenad, Rossport and Erris.

IN his letter headlined ‘Priests challenged on Erris pipeline stance’ (November 6), Brendan Cafferty writes that the independent Advantica report said the original pipeline was safe.

THE Labour leadership was spared an embarrassment after party members put on hold a decision on whether to support the Shell to Sea campaign.

I SEE that a Shell to Sea delegation recently met Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Eamon Ryan to protest against the terminal and gas pipeline in Erris, Co Mayo.

AN unprecedented meeting will take place today between objectors to the Corrib gas project and Energy Minister Eamon Ryan where they will outline their concerns over the Shell-led project. The talks will centre on objections to the gas project’s refinery, planned for Bellinaboy, in north Mayo.

Campaigners against the Shell refinery being built in Co Mayo are holding protests today in Erris and Dublin.

Campaigners against the construction of the Corrib gas field will stage a protest in Dublin today.

WELL, at last we have an election date. Even the announcement was manipulated by Bertie and crew.

Fine Gael would struggle to take three of the five Dáil seats in County Mayo if an election were to be held in the morning, according to an opinion poll commissioned by the Western People.

A cross party delegation joined forces today to call for an independent commission over the controversial Corrib gas pipe line.

SIX years ago the Shell to Sea campaign warned there would be severe conflict if the oil giant and the Government persisted in bringing unrefined gas to land in north Mayo.

WHAT the media appears to have overlooked in its reporting of last Friday’s events in Bellanaboy, Co Mayo, is the fact that a garda superintendent, apparently with the approval of the justice minister, arbitrarily decided to ban a legitimate protest march organised by the Shell to Sea campaign.

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

THEY were called ‘the Mayos’ on the farms around Youghal, Co Cork, in the 1950s.

The Shell to Sea protest is not going to go away. Neither is political corruption in this State. The problem with corruption is that it is going on for so long now that one of the excuses its apologists makes is the timespan.

GARDAÍ yesterday confirmed they were investigating alleged death threats made against Marine Minister Noel Dempsey.

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.

Demonstrators opposed to a controversial onshore gas pipeline in Co Mayo blocked workers from returning to the site today.

SHELL E&P Ireland has announced contracts worth €76 million for the construction of the Bellanaboy Bridge Gas Terminal as part of the Corrib Gas Field Development Project.