Maura Harrington

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Maura Harrington urged the High Court to quash a ministerial consent for a pipeline bringing gas to a refinery at Ballinaboy. Photograph: Collins Courts
Shell campaigner challenges Corrib gas pipeline permission

A campaigner against the Corrib gas project in Co Mayo has urged the High Court to quash a ministerial consent for a pipeline bringing gas to a refin(...)

The project to pump gas ashore from the Corrib field 80km off north Mayo was pioneered by Enterprise Ireland from 1996 and sold to Royal Dutch Shell in 2002
Little surprise in north Mayo over Shell sale of Corrib share

Royal Dutch Shell’s proposed sale of its major share in the Corrib gas field came as little surprise to residents in Erris, Co Mayo whose views are st(...)

Maura Harrington faces 10 days in prison following her arrest over refusing to pay a fine.
Shell to Sea activist Maura Harrington arrested over fine

Shell to Sea campaigner Maura Harrington has been arrested on foot of a warrant for the non-payment of a €300 court fine. Ms Harrington, a spokesper(...)

Colm and Gabielle Henry live at Glengad, Co Mayo. Their home overlooks Sruwaddacon Bay and the pipeline’s landfall. Photograph: Keith Heneghan
20 years after gas discovery, Corrib opens in north Mayo

The €3.5 billion Corrib gas development is due to be opened by Minister of State for Natural Resources Joe McHugh on Monday, almost 20 years after the(...)

Works are carried out on a section of gas line at Aughoose, Co Mayo. File photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
Natural gas begins flowing from controversial Corrib field

Natural gas is flowing into the national supply grid from the Corrib gas field off Co Mayo for the first time since it was discovered in 1996. One of(...)

A section of the Corrib gas line at Aughoose, Co Mayo. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
EPA turns down oral hearing request on Corrib gas project licence

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has turned down requests for an oral hearing into a revised licence sought by Shell E&P Ireland for the (...)

Bríd McGarry, a Mayo landowner, and Mary Corduff, wife of jailed farmer Willie Corduff, after five Mayo farmers were jailed in 2005 for refusing to give an undertaking not to obstruct the construction of the Corrib gas pipe line. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
The Corrib legacy: what the protests achieved

“You’ve gone very quiet up there.” North Mayo resident Mary Corduff reckons that if she had a euro for every time she heard this remark over the past (...)

Maura Harrington claimed An Bord Pleanála had misapplied the provisions of the directive and the development could have serious and irreversible implications.
Campaigner loses sports centre challenge

Environmental campaigner Maura Harrington has lost a High Court challenge to planning permission for a sports and community facility in an area that s(...)

Margaretta D’Arcy being escorted into Ennis Court yesterday.
Gardaí eject protesters during D’Arcy court hearing
  • Courts
  • January 23, 2014, 01:01

Four supporters of anti-war activist Margaretta D’Arcy (79) were forcibly removed by gardaí from court in Ennis yesterday after disrupting proceedings(...)

A section of the Corrib gas line at Aughoose, Co Mayo. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
EPA confirms Shell can still use original Corrib emissions licence

The Environmental Protection Agency has confirmed that Shell E&P Ireland can fall back on the original emissions licence for the Corrib gas refine(...)