Rossport Hunger strike: It's day one

mikemac

It's day one folks and there's a blog here:
http://www.corribsos.com/

This evening Shell to Sea campaigner Maura Harrington has begun a Hunger Strike to coincide with the arrival of the Solitaire, pipe-laying vessel in Broadhaven Bay. In a letter that was handed into the Solitaire in Killybegs yesterday, after being previously sent to Allseas Ltd (owner of the Solitaire), Ms Harrington stated that she placed her life in the hands of the Master of the Solitaire, Mr Simon van der Plicht. In her letter, she stated that her hunger strike will end in one of two ways, either that the Solitaire leaves Irish territorial waters or her death.

She was on the 9pm news and yes the S word was used.........starvation!

What say ye, will the hunger strike be over by lunchtime tomorrow or will she go the whole way and give up her life for cause.

Do you admire someone who would die for their cause? Or will you laugh if this hunger strike is over within a few days?
I reckon two days and it'll be called off after her docter "persuaded" her to, no humiliating comedown in that I suppose

RuggieBear

May she rest in peace.

abitlonely

micmclo wrote: »

I reckon two days and it'll be called off after her docter "persuaded" her to

That sounds about right, or the asylum send an ambulance round.

dublinmadyoke

I say fair play to her and all the rest of them down there. The Irish goverment sold this country out. If this happened in your part of the country you would do the same thing!!!

Up the Rossport people & fair play

super_furry

She's obviously mentally unstable and should be comitted.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

micmclo wrote: »

Do you admire someone who would die for their cause? Or will you laugh if this hunger strike is over within a few days?

I admire anyone who protests ahead of anyone who bends over backwards, as so many people in this country have done.

Jeapy

The woman is a nut!

...and from the Mayo forum...
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055371711

eddiehead

micmclo wrote: »

Do you admire someone who would die for their cause? Or will you laugh if this hunger strike is over within a few days?

I will laugh if when this hunger strike is over within a few days

FlutterinBantam

dublinmadyoke wrote: »

I say fair play to her and all the rest of them down there. The Irish goverment sold this country out. If this happened in your part of the country you would do the same thing!!!

Up the Rossport people & fair play

Sure sure sure, so we won't accept oil/gas/from anywhere as this disrupts the locals.

Right lads, no central heating /lekkie.... turn the lot off, the geezers out in Vladivostok are het up about it???? Sure isn't the Glen O' the Downs in a total mess with that road goin thru it???

Would ya cop yourself on son and visit the real world.

Holsten

Someone head down with a few Whoppers and lamp a few around.

Good times.

dublinmadyoke

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Sure sure sure, so we won't accept oil/gas/from anywhere as this disrupts the locals.

Right lads, no central heating /lekkie.... turn the lot off, the geezers out in Vladivostok are het up about it???? Sure isn't the Glen O' the Downs in a total mess with that road goin thru it???

Would ya cop yourself on son and visit the real world.

Fella I am in the real world............. support your own country

brundle

dublinmadyoke wrote: »

I say fair play to her and all the rest of them down there. The Irish goverment sold this country out. If this happened in your part of the country you would do the same thing!!!

Up the Rossport people & fair play

It happening on my doorstep and everyone is in favour now except a few non national tree huggers, a couple of fishermen looking for compo and about 2 of the original rossport 5. So please learn that mayo is for this and do not believe the crap these protestors are spinning

galwayrush

She's a nutcase

The_Minister

There was a guy who was on "hunger-strike" outside the Dail for about half a year.

It was hilarious to watch the numpties on Indymedia try and pretend that he was serious.

eddiehead

brundle wrote: »

It happening on my doorstep and everyone is in favour now except a few non national tree huggers, a couple of fishermen looking for compo and about 2 of the original rossport 5. So please learn that mayo is for this and do not believe the crap these protestors are spinning

Maybe the rest of Mayo should have a protest,in protest of the protestors protesting all the time.

AlmightyCushion

eddiehead wrote: »

Maybe the rest of Mayo should have a protest,in protest of the protestors protesting all the time.

Nah, the shell protesters will just protest that.

Zzippy

This is the school principal who spends half the year protesting when she should be running a school right? The one who drove her car at the gardai?
Nutcase tbh. Should be sacked and let starve if she's mad enough...

Captain Darling

They could be forcing a pipeline into her soon enough.....


Ironic????

starn

I really cant stand this bint. Hearted her on The Last Word earlier today she cant seem to be able to decide what she's actually protesting about. Theres no way in hell any of her outrages demands will be met. I think she just a attention grabbing busey body with nothing better to do. Oh think of the Childen. I wish she'd get back and start doing her job. Who she can run a school and spend all her time out protesting I dont know.

Maybe I should go on hunger strike until she rings the editor of the irish times to confirm she is out of Irish territorial waters.

I give two days at most, three if she's been sneaking Werters originals

is_that_so

She'll have a lot of time on her hands from Monday as she is retiring. I am all for protest but this type of dramatic blind zeal does no-one any favours but gets a few headlines.

phantom_lord

lol, those rossport protesters are a bunch of morons.

old boy

dunno if they can stop progress, usual malarkey, any where but my backyard.

sparksfly

We have given away this gas field to shell for nothing for the sake of a miserable few jobs during construction. We will then buy it back at a premium price at a time when energy is a huge issue. Other countries like Finland have had the same choice but took the sensible option and built and operated their own refinerys, keeping the massive revenue for investment in their country. Our crap government as usual takes the option that gives short time gain. This is the furthest thing from progress imaginable. When people make a stand they are called morons etc by the same gob****es who complain about the lack of money for the likes of the health service and schools. Fair play to the protesters who can see the bigger picture. At a time when we have nearly no native industy left we throw away another one.

kowloon

Did the government really give away a huge chunk of natural resouces for nothing? I've heard it quite a few times, but always from the protestors who I am hesitant to believe.

Kristopherus

RuggieBear wrote: »

May she rest in peace.

With a Corrib Gas pipeline running over her:D

dotsman

sparksfly wrote: »

We have given away this gas field to shell for nothing for the sake of a miserable few jobs during construction. We will then buy it back at a premium price at a time when energy is a huge issue. Other countries like Finland have had the same choice but took the sensible option and built and operated their own refinerys, keeping the massive revenue for investment in their country. Our crap government as usual takes the option that gives short time gain. This is the furthest thing from progress imaginable. When people make a stand they are called morons etc by the same gob****es who complain about the lack of money for the likes of the health service and schools. Fair play to the protesters who can see the bigger picture. At a time when we have nearly no native industy left we throw away another one.

Those protesters are not there for the big picture. They are a bunch of amateur nutjobs.

Their website looks like it was designed by a 5-year-old. If they want to be taken seriously, they need to act seriously. But they're too busy with their "**** the law" and "**** big corporations" attitude, forgetting to shower and pulling stunts like this.

starn

sparksfly wrote: »

We have given away this gas field to shell for nothing for the sake of a miserable few jobs during construction. We will then buy it back at a premium price at a time when energy is a huge issue. Other countries like Finland have had the same choice but took the sensible option and built and operated their own refinerys, keeping the massive revenue for investment in their country. Our crap government as usual takes the option that gives short time gain. This is the furthest thing from progress imaginable. When people make a stand they are called morons etc by the same gob****es who complain about the lack of money for the likes of the health service and schools. Fair play to the protesters who can see the bigger picture. At a time when we have nearly no native industy left we throw away another one.

Are you a geologist, or a engineer

Do you realise just how exspensive it is just to begin exploring for mineral reserves with no garuente of a retuen. If its the case that the protesters are worried about a loss of income to the state. Why arnt they pressure the goverment in to action over Rockall. The retuen from Rockall mineral, oil and gas rights is garentued to be a awful lot greater then anything from Corrib. There just just busey bodies, imported trutifanians or locals who were originally looking for a pay out

phantom_lord

sparksfly wrote: »

We have given away this gas field to shell for nothing for the sake of a miserable few jobs during construction. We will then buy it back at a premium price at a time when energy is a huge issue. Other countries like Finland have had the same choice but took the sensible option and built and operated their own refinerys, keeping the massive revenue for investment in their country. Our crap government as usual takes the option that gives short time gain. This is the furthest thing from progress imaginable. When people make a stand they are called morons etc by the same gob****es who complain about the lack of money for the likes of the health service and schools. Fair play to the protesters who can see the bigger picture. At a time when we have nearly no native industy left we throw away another one.

last time i checked we weren't communists.

dlofnep

I say fair play to her for standing up for her convictions. The Gardaí have been completely out of order, and the Government sold out. It's very easy for you all to judge her from the comfort of your couches. She's got more balls than the lot of you put together. It's very easy to be passive, but takes alot of courage to stand up for what you believe in.

And who gives a rats what their website looks like. Complete ad hominem. Are they web developers, or normal people who are protesting against natural minerals being sold off to the highest bidder and environmental concerns?

Put that in your PIPE and smoke it. I couldn't give a monkeys what any of you think about it either.

Guy:Incognito

sparksfly wrote: »

This is the furthest thing from progress imaginable. When people make a stand they are called morons etc by the same gob****es who complain about the lack of money for the likes of the health service and schools. .

So we should celebrate a principal spending hertime outside of school protesting while (I assume) getting paid by the state?

Guy:Incognito

dlofnep wrote: »

I say fair play to her for standing up for her convictions. The Gardaí have been completely out of order, and the Government sold out. It's very easy for you all to judge her from the comfort of your couches. She's got more balls than the lot of you put together. It's very easy to be passive, but takes alot of courage to stand up for what you believe in.

And who gives a rats what their website looks like. Complete ad hominem. Are the web developers, or normal people who are protesting against natural minerals being sold off to the highest bidder and environmental concerns?
.

My hole.

The gob****es protesting down there are the same ones protesting at various other sites and functions around the country, Are we to believe that everythign the government does happens to be against one of their principles? they are professional protesters(apart from the ones that manage to get paid by the state while out protesting, they are double jobbing)).

dlofnep wrote: »

Put that in your PIPE and smoke it. I couldn't give a monkeys what any of you think about it either.

You are enough to rant about the stuff you supposdly dont care about.

dlofnep

Stekelly wrote: »

You are enough to rant about the stuff you supposdly dont care about.

I was referring to my post, which still stands btw. Back inside your cozy house Ste. Angry protesters outside might disrupt your day and god forbid, address one of the many things wrong in this country. I think you'll find people don't protest for "money", hence - they are not professional protesters.

Guy:Incognito

dlofnep wrote: »

I was referring to my post, which still stands btw. Back inside your cozy house Ste. Angry protesters outside might disrupt your day and god forbid, address one of the many things wrong in this country. I think you'll find people don't protest for "money", hence - they are not professional protesters.

ah the age old 2answer without replying to points raised apparoace.


"Professional protesters" was more a figure of speach refering to what they spend their days doing rather than working.

These people are either very wealthy or living off tax payers in some way if they are not working. The first group can do as they please (within the law) but the 2nd group should not be getting paid by the state (be it through benifits or a state pad job) to be down their spending their days protesting.

admiralofthefleet

i hope her twat of a son does well in the golf...

dlofnep

Stekelly wrote: »

These people are either very wealthy or living off tax payers in some way if they are not working.

Eh, I think you'll find most people who protest on issues such as these are very working-class, and actually spend their holidays from work to go and protest.

starn

Wasnt she supposed to be calling in sick to the school. So she could go and protest. I'd like to know exactly how long she was getting a way with that for.

admiralofthefleet

dlofnep wrote: »

Eh, I think you'll find most people who protest on issues such as these are very working-class, and actually spend their holidays from work to go and protest.

i would think the opposite. most working class people could not tell you who the president is let alone protest about a pipeline that is apparently raping Ireland of its natural resources. the type that protest about this are the middle aged women that live in houses on mount merrion avenue with 50 cats and plants everywhere. and a palm tree in the garden

starn

dlofnep wrote: »

Eh, I think you'll find most people who protest on issues such as these are very working-class, and actually spend their holidays from work to go and protest.

If I remember rightly the majority of the protesters charged at the May day protests where actually the sons of some quite wealthy who Docters based out of Blackrock Clinic and The Mater Private. Who pretty muched begged in courth to be let off so they could sit the end of year exams in UCD.

binhead

Ah this is Gas...

kowloon

Can't we all just, get along?

One Cold Hand

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

i hope her twat of a son does well in the golf...

You're joking? She's not Padraig's Ma, is she?

thelordofcheese

dlofnep wrote: »

Put that in your PIPE and smoke it. I couldn't give a monkeys what any of you think about it either.

It's ok, people are wrong about stuff all the time, today just happens to be your day.

Winters

fúcking hippys.

Homer

Pffftt.... These big gas companies can fuel some of the people some of the time, but they can't fuel all of the people all of the time I say!

I know whats really going on

panda100

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Sure sure sure, so we won't accept oil/gas/from anywhere as this disrupts the locals.

Right lads, no central heating /lekkie.... turn the lot off, the geezers out in Vladivostok are het up about it???? Sure isn't the Glen O' the Downs in a total mess with that road goin thru it???

Uh you do realise that this gas does not belong to Ireland so we wont see any of it right??
Shell owns this gas and will sell it to the highest bidder.The goverment are allowing Shell to take €52 billion worth of our gas for pretty much nothing.
That is why last weeks the Rossport locals offered the navy,who are down there protecting Shell, a Shell flag to fly from their mast and not the Irish one as they are not protecting Irelands natural recources.

Fair play to Maura Harrington, If anyone wishes to show a bit of solidarity with her,there will be a demo at half 5 outside Shell HQ on Leeson street this evening.

Mossy Monk

Good riddance to her.

mike65

Its an outrage that in this day and age when the technology exists to achive a goal with the highest standards, this is the best they can do.

Oh and that woman is the sort that gives hunger striking a bad name.

Mike.

Mossy Monk

mike65 wrote: »

Oh and that woman is the sort that gives hunger striking a bad name.

She is a tool.

Dragan

It never ceases to amaze me that people want jobs, a good economy and some financial stability, yet heaven forbid they should actually need to do something to have this happen.

Your one is a moron. A publicity stunt and that is it, casting ill shadows on braver people who have done similar in the face of actual adversity.

iphone newbie

dlofnep wrote: »

The Gardaí have been completely out of order

Have you been to the site to see the Gardai being out of order? How exactly have they been out of order? I have worked on the site and come face to face with the protesters and the Gardai have been excellent in their protection of the ordinary workers.

Homer

panda100 wrote: »

Uh you do realise that this gas does not belong to Ireland so we wont see any of it right??
Shell owns this gas and will sell it to the highest bidder.The goverment are allowing Shell to take €52 billion worth of our gas for pretty much nothing.
That is why last weeks the Rossport locals offered the navy,who are down there protecting Shell, a Shell flag to fly from their mast and not the Irish one as they are not protecting Irelands natural recources.

Fair play to Maura Harrington, If anyone wishes to show a bit of solidarity with her,there will be a demo at half 5 outside Shell HQ on Leeson street this evening.

I'll be waiting with a bar of soap for ya... Hippy :rolleyes: