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Film Screening: The Pipe (in Portumna, Galway)
In a remote corner of the West of Ireland sits Broadhaven Bay. It is the perfect picture postcard, where the high cliffs of Erris Head and the Stags of Broadhaven stand sentry at the mouth of the bay against the mighty Atlantic, as if protecting the delicate golden sands of Glengad beach and the tiny village of Rossport, which nestles behind the dunes. However, this peaceful tranquility belies the turmoil that lies beneath, and the unique nature of the coastline which has sustained generations of farmers and fishermen, has also delivered to Shell Oil the perfect landfall for the Corrib Gas Pipeline.
The Pipe is showing in Portumna, Galway on Saturday 11th (at 20:00) December and Sunday 12th December (at 17:00) in the Cinemobile in the town square.
The Sunday showing will also have a questions and answers session with Richard O'Donnell, facilitated by Mark Conroy.
Keeping the Corrib Gas Project in the news
From today's advertiser;
Corrib Gas saga was no more violent than one night on the beat
Galway Advertiser, November 11, 2010.
Dear Editor,
In last week's review of 'Once Upon a Time in the West' some information that I made available to the author Lorna Siggins was para-phrased. I had no hesitation whatsoever in allowing Ms Siggins to use this information, which came from a complaint to the Garda complaints board, made after I witnessed a violent assault on Pat O' Donnell, fisherman and opponent of the Corrib Gas project. I knew that Ms Siggins' book would be likely to present a much needed opportunity for the multi- faceted campaign against the Corrib Gas Project in North Mayo to be reported accurately, something which has not been the case to date. As my information and my name were used in your review I would like to take the opportunity to respond to the context in which they were placed. With no disrespect to either your paper or Kevin Higgins, the author of the review, I wish to clarify some issues in relation to the campaign itself rather than the book or the media generated perception of events.