Corrib ‘sweet deal’ now a major national issue

THANKS for your coverage (April 8) of the release of Shell to Sea protester Maura Harrington from Mountjoy jail.

At last the real issues at stake in the Corrib gas controversy are being talked about in the media. The State oppression of communities in north Mayo is no accident — it’s all about money.

The giveaway privatisation of our natural resources, estimated by our own Government at 130 billion barrels of oil and 50 trillion cubic feet of gas in our offshore territory, has sown the seeds of the problems that have followed.