Shell shock
Go and see Western Ireland, it's your last chance
The Guilford four? The Manchester six? Everyone remotely familiar with Irish recent history knows what I'm talking about. Irish men who've been imprisoned for decades after a hoax process. You can see Daniel Day-Lewis excel in "In the name of the Father" portraying the story of these men. Sadly, Ireland found 5 volunteers to eradicate the numerical inconsistancy of the abovementioned list...The Rossport five.The Rossport Five are James Brendan Philbin, brothers Philip and Vincent McGrath, Willie Corduff and Micheál Ó Seighin. These five men from County Mayo were jailed on June 29th 2005 by Justice Finnegan, President of the High Court of the republic of Ireland, for contempt of court. They refused to obey a court injunction forbidding them to interfere with work being undertaken by Shell, who are building a high pressure gas pipeline across land in Rossport to pipe unrefined natural gas from the offshore Corrib gas Field. Three of the five men own land in Rossport: Phillip McGrath has a house in Rossport and Micheál Ó Seighin lives about five miles from Rossport in Stonefield. The government granted planning permission to Enterprise Oil (subsequently taken over by Shell) to build an onshore gas processing plant and to supply it using a high pressure pipeline which runs as close as seventy metres to the houses of some of these men. The men were released from Cloverhill Prison on 30 September 2005, after 94 days, when Shell applied to the High Court to have the injunction lifted. This came after media and political scrutiny of the case.
Go and see Western Ireland, it's your last chance
The Guilford four? The Manchester six? Everyone remotely familiar with Irish recent history knows what I'm talking about. Irish men who've been imprisoned for decades after a hoax process. You can see Daniel Day-Lewis excel in "In the name of the Father" portraying the story of these men. Sadly, Ireland found 5 volunteers to eradicate the numerical inconsistancy of the abovementioned list...The Rossport five.The Rossport Five are James Brendan Philbin, brothers Philip and Vincent McGrath, Willie Corduff and Micheál Ó Seighin. These five men from County Mayo were jailed on June 29th 2005 by Justice Finnegan, President of the High Court of the republic of Ireland, for contempt of court. They refused to obey a court injunction forbidding them to interfere with work being undertaken by Shell, who are building a high pressure gas pipeline across land in Rossport to pipe unrefined natural gas from the offshore Corrib gas Field. Three of the five men own land in Rossport: Phillip McGrath has a house in Rossport and Micheál Ó Seighin lives about five miles from Rossport in Stonefield. The government granted planning permission to Enterprise Oil (subsequently taken over by Shell) to build an onshore gas processing plant and to supply it using a high pressure pipeline which runs as close as seventy metres to the houses of some of these men. The men were released from Cloverhill Prison on 30 September 2005, after 94 days, when Shell applied to the High Court to have the injunction lifted. This came after media and political scrutiny of the case. Strangely, when you ask for ethical investment funds in your bank, Shell will always feature as one of the stocks because they invest a lot in alternative energy. Brits putting energy in chasing Irishmen from their land can hardly be called alternative if you ask me...
