Shell has told locals living close to the site of the planned onshore pipeline that work on the next phase of the project will begin in the coming weeks.

THE families of two Donegal fishermen who drowned after their small fishing boat sank last November have disagreed with an official investigation’s findings that it was carrying too many crab pots on board at the time of the accident.

The search is resuming this morning for a fisherman feared dead in Donegal.

Naval divers have called off their search for the night for missing Donegal fisherman Robert McLaughlin.

A Co Donegal fisherman who lost his life at sea will be laid to rest today.

The search for a missing fisherman off the north Donegal coast has been called off because of bad weather.

IN a double fishing tragedy yesterday a heartbroken Donegal mother lost her younger brother and a second son to the sea.

The body of a man has been recovered from the sea near Glengad in Co Donegal with a search under way for a second man after a vessel went on the rocks.

MORE than €8,500 a day has been spent on overtime and expenses for gardaí policing the Corrib gas project in Mayo since protests began there than five years ago.

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.

Gardaí in Co Mayo have arrested nine people during ongoing protests against the controversial Corrib gas pipeline scheme.

GARDAÍ made four arrests as protesters continued to demonstrate yesterday against pipe laying in Broadhaven Bay for the Shell gas facility along the Mayo coast.

A massive security operation was under way in Co Mayo today as work on the final stages of energy giant Shell’s bitterly disputed gas refinery began.

Controversial pipe-laying work is due to begin in Broadhaven Bay in Co Mayo today as part of the Corrib gas project.

A small Irish coastal community was gripped in a massive security operation tonight to allow final offshore work to begin on energy giant Shell’s bitterly disputed gas refinery.

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 are bracing themselves for physical clashes today with protesters against the Shell Corrib gas project in Mayo.

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

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

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

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.

Gardaí have confirmed the two fishermen who died after being rescued off the Donegal coast were brothers.

Two fishermen who were rescued off the coast of Donegal last night after their fishing vessel got into difficulty have died in hospital.

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

A number of events are planned for Co Mayo today to mark the first anniversary of the imprisonment of the Rossport Five.

A body has been found on rocks near Glengad in Co Donegal.

The victims of the recent landslides in north Mayo are to receive €300,000 in compensation.

FAMILIES hit by last month’s landslides in north Mayo say they have received personal assurances from Taoiseach Bertie Ahern that sufficient funds and expertise will be made available to repair and protect their devastated communities.

Connacht-Ulster MEP Dana Rosemary Scallon has branded the Government "disgraceful" for what she sees as their lack of action to aid families affected by last week’s land slippage in Mayo.

Mayo County Council has closed a main road in the north of the county amid fears of further landslides around Dooncarton mountain.

A group of demonstrators has halted on-shore works on the Corrib gas project in protest at work being carried out by the oil giant Shell.

A 25-year-old man has died in a road accident in County Donegal this morning.