Shell to Sea have called a Day of Action for Friday 29th July to protest against Shell commencing work on the Corrib site.

Dublin Shell to Sea have organised a bus to Mayo, leaving Dublin at 6PM on Thursday 28th July from the Writers Museum on Parnell Sq and returning on Friday evening (early). A seat will cost [...]

Recording of Gardaí is only a glimpse into brutality of policing of project
Shell to Sea has called for an independent international inquiry into policing of protests around the Corrib Gas project. Their call was backed by a number of public representatives who attended a Shell to Sea press conference in Dublin today. These included TDs [...]

CONVERSATION BETWEEN A GARDA SERGEANT AND THE EVER-RUNNING CAMERA
Come down down outta that tree
come down outta that tree
ya gobshite
ya banshee
or we”ll bomb ya
Get off the road
ya hippy scum
Get off the fucking road
the road is for tractors
and tanks
and hummers
or anything with oil in it
but you’ve no fucking oil in ya have ya?
so get off the road
GET [...]

The Human Rights In Ireland blog has a ‘blog carnival’ on at the moment around civil disobedience and its policing in Ireland that should be of interest to readers of ILR.
Vicky Conway provides an introduction and the context for the carnival:
“There are many reasons for hosting a blog carnival this week on civil disobedience and [...]

The Irish Minister for the Environment, John Gormley T.D., may be about to grant permission for a final stage of a major gas project (the Corrib Gas Project) led by Shell Oil that has ruined the lives of a small community in the West of Ireland and prompted a massive national and international campaign of [...]