Four arrested as Shell pipeline protests continue

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 man and two women, all in their 20s, were arrested on public order offences after forming human barriers on the road at Pollathomais about a kilometre from where the pipeline is due to come ashore on Glengad Beach at 2.20pm.

The group, a Dubliner and two English people, were attempting to block trucks reaching the Shell compound at Glengad and had made a tripod of scaffolding, climbed it and secured themselves to the structure.