Shell & Dempsey talking sh*** on Primetime

national | rights, freedoms and repression | opinion/analysis Friday August 05, 2005 04:25 by cracked open my shell and now Im free

Well thank god rte finally got up off their arses and asked some probing questions

Primetime finally did a piece on Rossport and Shell last night.

They interviewed Sean Harrington in Rossport but strangely none of the families?

Perhaps the families are so sick of the pathetic, biased coverage rte have given the story that they dont want their words twisted round yet again.

There was a report from Rossport with interviews with Mark Caragy and then back to studio where Mark Garavan put points to Andy Pyle who in turn lied as is the Shell way.

"We are developping Ireland's gas" said Pyle which made it sound like Shell were doing the Irish a big favour. He didnt mention that Shell were actually robbing Irelands gas (aided by the convicted criminal Ray Burke). Then he continued on his fantasy analysis by saying it was part of a policy of "attracting inward investment" in Ireland (Bertie pimping the country)

Does "attracting inward investment" now mean "getting big multinationals to rob us blind"?

Its seems to be.

Mark Garavan pointed out that most of the points and the picture Pyle was creating was fantasy.

Mark Little then interviewed Dempsey who said at one stage that off shore is more dangerous and that he was concerned about the rig workers.

- WHAT A LOAD OF BULLSHIT!!!

It was really clear here how Dempsey doesnt give a shit about the people of Mayo and their safety. He is more worried about foreign Rig workers than woman and children who are Irish citizens.

It was put to Dempsey that Shell hadnt proved to be very reliable or trustworthy and that Shell's breach of contract was not discovered by Dempsey's dept but by the locals and then reported in newspapers.

Dempsey looked uncomfortable and didnt produce credible reassurances when Mark Little put it to him that his Dept's previous monitoring had failed and that there was a serious doubt over the credibility of Shell's word and the confidence one could have in the company.

When asked were there any other problems or breaches by Shell Dempsey just answered "None that we know of".

Dempsey played the innocent bunny instead of a Minister leading a department and representing the people of Ireland in the face of the massive, greedy transnational corporation.

It was very clear from the Primetime piece that this Government and this so called legal system have "JAILED THE 5 MESSANGERS" for bringing to the attention of all what our government should have found out ages ago.

Watch it yourself here http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0804/primetime.html