Corrib gas protestor arrested

SHELL To Sea campaigner Maura Harrington has been arrested again after failing to pay fines she received for offences relating to protests against Shell’s Corrib gas pipeline.

The retired Co Mayo schoolteacher, who went on hunger strike last year, was stopped by gardaí after attending a funeral in her home village yesterday afternoon.

She was brought initially to her local garda station before being sent to Mountjoy Women’s Prison in Dublin, where supporters were planning a protest to mark her arrival last night.