The Sunday Times
After two boats were impounded near Rossport, fishermen complain gardai are helping facilitate gas pipeline installation
The bay was drenched in sunshine and, sporting a white sun hat, local parish priest Michael Nallen walked to the cliff edge to check the canvas village of protesters, known as the Rossport Solidarity Camp.
There is a sense the law is being used to kick people into submission, said Nallen. The state seems to be able to bend the law to help a multinational but not address the real concerns of a community.
In the bay the Solitaire, protected by two Irish Navy vessels, lay an offshore pipeline that will connect Shells installation at Glengad with its gas field 83km away. The 300m-long ship, which has a full crew of 420, was escorted into the bay amid tight security last week. Gardai and Shells security personnel vastly outnumbered protesters yesterday as the Solitaire worked on.
If the weather remains good, the inshore work will end this week and the ship can continue out to sea, getting further away from protesters.
Last night fishermen met Dara Calleary, a junior minister from Ballina, to complain about how the powers of the local garda superintendent Michael Larkin, appear to have been extended to facilitate the Solitaire.
At an earlier meeting with the officer, they were told Pat ODonnells boat, the John Michelle, which was impounded along with that of his son Jonathan last Thursday, could not be released because the navy deemed it unseaworthy. They were also told Jonathans boat, the James Collins, would be released only if he adhered to bail conditions laid out in the High Court on Friday.
The navy deciding that my boat is not seaworthy and must be held to protect my health and safety is another tool to help Shell, Pat ODonnell said. I have a constitutional right to fish and will not give that up.
Eddie Diver, a fishermens representative, said: Our primary concern is to get Pat and Jonathan ODonnells boats released. It’s the height of the season. They could lose their livelihoods.
Protesters have gathered on Ballyglass pier, near Belmullet, to show solidarity with the ODonnells, whose boats are berthed there and manned by gardai. Another of their vessels, the Iona Isle, sank off Erris Head in mysterious circumstances on June 11.
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
