Adams to visit one of Rossport Five in prison today

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

Mr Adams and Sinn Féin TD Martin Ferris will be meeting with Micheal O Seighin, one of the five Co Mayo landowners jailed for obstructing work on the Corrib gas pipeline.

The five have spent the past 91 days in prison for refusing to obey a court injunction ordering them not to interfere with works on the pipeline.

They believe the structure poses an unacceptable risk to the local population and want gas from the Corrib field pumped to an offshore terminal rather than directly onshore.

Speaking at the National Ploughing Championships in Co Cork yesterday, Mr Adams said the jailing of the men was an "national disgrace".

He said they were basically imprisoned "for upholding the rights of their families and their communities".