100 turn out to anti-fracking meeting

Around 100 people are estimated to have turned out for the first all-Ireland meeting of anti-fracking campaigners in Enniskillen.

Activists were demonstrating against plans by Australian firm Tamboran Resources to start drilling for gas in the north-west by 2014.

The company has claimed that with an investment of €6bn, it could harvest 40 years worth of gas in Leitrim and Fermanagh.

John Cronogue, who helped organise today's protest, warned that fracking would pollute the River Shannon, the most important water river basin on this island.

"If the water is contaminated it would have an effect on the health and well-being of the people (down the length of Ireland) and the general environment," he said.