Corrib protesters detained as unrest continues

mayo | arts and media | other press Saturday October 14, 2006 10:54 by repost

Lorna Siggins, Marine Correspondent

Two people detained in Belmullet, Co Mayo, yesterday in relation to a complaint about intimidation over the Shell Corrib gas project were released last night and a file is to be sent to the DPP.

The two, a man in his sixties and a woman in her thirties, were arrested and taken to Belmullet Garda station yesterday afternoon and were detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act.

Chief Supt Tony McNamara, head of the Mayo Garda division, confirmed that the arrests were related to a complaint of intimidation which gardaI in Belmullet were investigating. He described the complaint as the most serious of a number of similar complaints lodged over the protests at Bellanaboy. They wer released later.

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Dr Cowley is to host a press conference with Independent TDs Tony Gregory and Seamus Healy and Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins at the Bellanaboy site on Monday morning.