At least 2,500 ESB customers in Connemara, Co Galway are without electricity since 10am this morning after a lightening strike cut power supplies.

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.

ANNE-MARIE Healy is only 39 years of age but due to chronic rheumatoid arthritis, she is confined to a wheelchair.

AS a spokesperson for the Shell to Sea group in Co Mayo, I have commented publicly many times on various aspects of the proposed Corrib gas project, predominantly in relation to site works at Bellanaboy and associated environmental issues.