Update from the ongoing Mainshill eviction, day 4

The ongo­ing evic­tion of Main­shill Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp entered its fourth day with the strug­gle to clear the sycamores con­tin­u­ing.

Yes­ter­day the bat­tle for the sycamores had start­ed with the removal of the skyraft, and one pro­tes­tor being hauled out of a tree.

Tree­hous­es were destroyed and the remain­ing anti-coal activists were left with­out tarps, bed­ding or in some cas­es, a way down the tree.

Dur­ing the course of today, five oth­er peo­ple were evict­ed from the sycamores.

The hid­den tree­top camp known as ‘Ewok Vil­lage’ was cleared as well with climbers tack­ling some tough defences.

In all, there were nine arrests.

A huge amount of heavy machin­ery has been moved onto site, so oppor­tu­ni­ties for actions to stop work on site are lit­er­al­ly every­where.

“The fight isn’t over yet”, said the almost infa­mous Bar­ry Cad­er, recent­ly released on bail.