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MEMBERS OF THE Rossport solidarity camp at Aughoose in Mayo are seeking legal advice over a report that suggests a private security company has the camp under 24 hour surveillance.
It is understood that a circulation from the security company which included information on numbers of people in the camp at different times and their movements was unintentionally forwarded to a non company email address.
The Irish Times reported that the report had been sent to a group of 10 people, including two retired members of the Garda Siochána.
The report, seen by TheJournal.ie and dated 29 June, provides 24 hour timeline with details of people entering and leaving Camp Solidarity as well as descriptions of “known” vehicles.
A spokesperson for Integrated Rish Management Services, the company hired by Shell EP Ireland to provide security at Corrib gas project work sites said, “We are tasked with protecting people and property in respect of the Corrib gas project and in so doing, operate to the highest standards, acting responsibly and proportionally at all times.”
Speaking to TheJournal.ie a spokesman for Shell to Sea said surveillance by the security is not something new. “They’re not just beside the compound, they’re around the community all the time and it’s having an effect on local people too”, he said.
He said people in the camp were “stressed and intimidated” by the security company’s activities but said “there are no authorities we can turn to”.
Socialist MEP Paul Murphy described the report as “extremely sinister” and part of a “pattern over years of harassment of legitimate and peaceful protestors by Shell’s private security force”.
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Not another career politician entering the race..yawn fest,to many candidates entering the race.who have no hope.
What’s a career politician? Surely most other public servants could be described as career teachers, career doctors and career Guards! Look at candidates on their merit. I doubt you even know much about Avril Doyle. I don’t either but I don’t instantly dismiss someone either! *rant over*
MEPs. The most pointless, overpaid, and irrelevant political representatives of the lot.
I can’t think what encourages them to go for the office of Uachtaran na hEireann!
I see Adams says that northern Ireland should have a vote in the presidency of the republic of Ireland…is he on planet earth at all?? They are not governed by the republic..that lads off his tits altogether!
It’s Gerry Adams. That explains it all.
I remember Gerry many years ago, when Uncle Gaybo tried to ambush him on the LLS. He wiped the floor with Byrne and his cronies, even though there was an even stronger smell of semtex off him then. He gained many admirers that night, and paradoxically did no harm at all for the cause of peace in the North.
Like FF, he has been too long at the helm, he’s lost whatever credibility he had in the first place, has been the subject of controversy for matters aside from his republican background, and has been reduced to a laughing stock in the Dail more than once.
Kevin O whatever his name is was, albeit windy, a far stronger performer in the Dail than Lord Adams.
I hear that there might be a vacancy for a president in the Yemen soon.Or even Syria.
This is getting ridiculous
Maybe FG can run them all, Gis, and they can rotate the job.
The greens tried that as well, you may remember :)
At first glance thought the heading read ‘gouging’. Mightn’t have been too far off the mark…
Dear David Higgins,where you clearly state you don’t know much about above mentioned career politician,I actually do,know a lot about this pillar of her community,n if you too dump to understand what’s ment about career politician,well that’s not my fault,keep your rants to yourself
Yeah, that’s going to win her votes :o
That’s true Ryan…….
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