Rossport residents and drift-net fishermen are victims of powerful forces

ONE of the toxic effects of the Celtic Tiger is the notion that people with wealth and power should have more influence on society.

Media spin and access to political lobbying by powerful interest groups is having an enormous impact.

Nowhere can this be seen more clearly than at Rossport where the community is struggling against a powerful multinational and in the plight of driftnet fishermen who are having their right to a livelihood forcibly taken away from them.