Nobody should be surprised by the unsubstantiated content of the Sunday World, a Tony O'Reilly owned Red-Top with the journalistic rigour of the Beano, a paper which wikipedia describes as 'populist revisionist'. Increasing his profile as the most prominent Irish crime journalist after the death of his main competitor, Veronica Gueirn, Paul Williams was awarded Ireland's ESB National Media Award in 1996 for 'campaigning and social issues.' As useful a source of information on campaigning and social issues as Wayne Rooney is on the EU Constitution and with the RA now relegated to the status of an old boys club, good old Paul has resorted to scraping the bottom of his self-made provo-barrel for a story as he watches his raison d'etre slowly disappear down the crapper leaving only a scurrilous brown trail in its wake. Odd that Shell has to hire these people when they have the support of the majority, Shell could easily save themselves a few quid there.

Financial Dynamics (a PR comany were the name says it all really), london PR guru and Tony O'Reilly employee Roy Godson, John Egan, Susan Shannon, Louise McMahon, Christy Loftus (58k a year for 3 years), Padraig Hughes and retired Garda John Carey have all been hired to win over support despite Shells claims that the 'Corrib Gas Partners have the consent of the majority'.

Learning its lessons from the disaterous PR that resulted from the incarceration of the Rossport 5, Shell has steadily accrued a team of PR companies, gurus, community liasons and external advisors to help it launch a charm offensive with the re-start of work at the site in Bellnaboy. 'it is laughable to say that in some way Shell has press-ganged the media to its cause' - Daily Mail ShellToSea basher Paul Palmer News report Saturday Octo13:42 by Gaz B -(A)- wsm (pers cap) requiembroadcast at eircom dot net

The Sheriff by Gerry O'Carroll