Shell to Sea campaigner jailed for 3 months. 14th Feb

Ms Ní Ghraidm plead­ed guilty to a Sec­tion 8 and 9 charge and refused to do com­mu­ni­ty ser­vice as she felt her protest was a ser­vice to a com­mu­ni­ty under siege from Shell. The Judge then sen­tenced Ms Ní Ghraidm to 3 months in jail.

Ms Ní Ghraidm plead­ed guilty to a Sec­tion 8 and 9 charge and refused to do com­mu­ni­ty ser­vice as she felt her protest was a ser­vice to a com­mu­ni­ty under siege from Shell. The Judge then sen­tenced Ms Ní Ghraidm to 3 months in jail.

Izzy has been a strong sup­port­er of Shell to Sea for years and her com­mit­ment to the cause is much appre­ci­at­ed by us here in Mayo.
She has coura­geous­ly stood up for our strug­gle to pro­tect our com­mu­ni­ty and is pas­sion­ate in her fight to reclaim Irish nat­ur­al resources.

Speak­ing from the Court, Shell to Sea spokesper­son Ter­ence Con­way stat­ed “Yes­ter­day in Bel­mul­let Dis­trict court, we saw a com­mit­ted envi­ron­men­tal cam­paign­er being jailed for a minor pub­lic order inci­dent. On the oth­er hand a Shell secu­ri­ty guard who was caught deal­ing drugs is allowed to walk free. Ms Ní Ghraidm has tak­en a brave stand to sup­port this com­mu­ni­ty’s strug­gle against a greedy multi­na­tion­al that will do what­ev­er it is allowed to by the sub­servient State insti­tu­tions”.

Mr Con­way con­tin­ued “What we’re expe­ri­enc­ing is the selec­tive appli­ca­tion of the law. Yes­ter­day Prov­i­dence Resources dropped their Dublin Bay oil drilling licence because the State has not got it’s required EU envi­ron­men­tal laws in place. The same EU envi­ron­men­tal laws apply to Cor­rib but are being ignored.”