Rossport Five returned to jail

Five protesters against gas pipelines being built by Shell in the west of Ireland were returned to jail today after an attempted peace deal failed.

Rossport Five returned to jail

Five protesters against gas pipelines being built by Shell in the west of Ireland were returned to jail today after an attempted peace deal failed.

The men had been in Cloverhill Prison in Dublin for 27 days after they refused to obey an injunction forbidding them from obstructing the construction of the pipeline across their land in Rossport, Co Mayo.

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