Sunday Independent trying to decide Shell spin

national | arts and media | other press Sunday July 17, 2005 08:33 by Phuq Hedd

Funny evidence of two different titles being cooked up

The Sunday Independent (the weekend organ of the Independent Newspaper group, famously run by industry boss William Martin Murphy, leader of the attempt to break the unions in the 1913 Lockout immortalised in Strumpet City) has two copies of the same story sandwiching a fulminating opinion piece about the IRA. The two working titles show an indecision as to whether or not the IRA should be implicated directly in alleged threats against Shell/Statoil or not. Make up your mind editors. Do you dare to tell a blatant lie or not?

Shell staff death threat
PARAMILITARY-STYLE death threats have been made against workers on Shell's controversial €300m Corrib gas pipeline project in Co Mayo, the Sunday Independent can reveal.
read on >>
Softened up for another IRA fudge
WE'RE being insidiously softened up by some politicians (notably, the Taoiseach) and media people to accept a forthcoming IRA statement that will probably be full of the usual fudge and will stop well short of announcing disbandment.
read on >>
IRA-style death threats made to Shell contractors
PARAMILITARY-style death threats have been made against workers on Shell's controversial €300 Corrib gas pipeline project in Co Mayo, the Sunday Independent can reveal.
read on >>