Pipeline concessions fail to satisfy objectors

ON the Corrib gas issue, we have had some interesting developments recently.

The Minister for Energy, Noel Dempsey, ordered an independent safety review of the proposed pipeline and gave it the go-ahead subject to certain conditions which the company, we were told, was prepared to accept.

Yet some local people still said the pipeline was not safe and would never go ahead. We have talk of people going back to jail and even invoking the spirit of 1916. We even heard a Mayo TD say the jails would not be big enough to hold them all and he would be among them. What a statement from an elected legislator.