Pipeline protesters call for Shell boycott

Five men jailed for their opposition to a gas pipeline today called for a public boycott of all petrol stations owned by Shell and Statoil.

The men, farmers Willie Corduff, Philip McGrath and Brendan Philbin, and retired school teachers, Vincent McGrath and Michael O’Suighin, spent last night in prison after refusing to give assurances to the High Court in Dublin they would not obstruct the construction of the pipeline for the €990m Corrib gas project in Mayo.