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éirígí keep up the pressure on Shell and Ahern![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() éirígí activists staged two successful pickets over the past number of days. The pickets were designed to show both solidarity with the community of Erris, Co Mayo as they battle against Shells plans to build an unsafe refinery and pipeline and also to focus public attention on those responsible for the entire Corrib gas debacle. The two éirígí protests were thus focused on the two main culprits; Shell and the head of the government responsible for the giveaway of Ireland's gas reserves, Bertie Ahern. The first picket was at the Shell service station on the N81 Tallaght By-Pass on the evening of Friday 8th of December. This station, like so many other Shell stations across the country, has been the focus of repeated protests in the battle to force Shell to Sea. Despite the appalling weather up to a dozen people took part in the protest. The protesters were heartened by the amount of motorists who hooted their car horns in support with only a handful of cars using the service station during the two hour duration of the protest. |
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