The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has criticised Dublin City Council for refusing to allow the erection of street posters advertising a demonstration supporting the Rossport Five.

The so-called Rossport Five are due to appear before the High Court this afternoon amid fresh hope that they may be released from prison.

SO anxious were the people for the return of their beloved politicians that many of them made the journey to our national parliament to welcome them back, and some even slept outside the Dáil the previous night.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams is due to visit one of the so-called Rossport Five at Cloverhill Prison in Dublin today.

A NEW Labour-led government in Norway could soon intervene in the Rossport Five row over a Shell gas pipeline in Co Mayo.

A Sinn Féin Stormont Assembly delegation is today due to visit the Rossport Five on their 66th day in Dublin’s Cloverhill Prison.

Six independent TDs and Socialist Party deputy Joe Higgins are due to visit the so-called Rossport Five in prison today to show their support for the jailed protestors.

A number of Mayo county councillors are due to visit the so-called Rossport Five in prison today to discuss their ongoing dispute with the global oil firm Shell.

EXCLUSIVE news about the return of the Colombia Three had hardly broken on RTÉ News when Enda Kenny had his press statement ‘at the ready.’

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.

The DUP this afternoon blamed their rivals in the Ulster Unionist Party for allegedly conceding that Northern MPs and MEPs would have speaking rights in the Dáil.

Sinn Féin spokesman on Marine and Natural Resources Martin Ferris has slated the decision to keep the "Rossport Five" in jail.

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.