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Cork Shell to Sea visit Irish Navy HQ
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Friday September 12, 2008 21:18 by John - Cork Shell to Sea
Today a small group of activists went down to Haulbowline island, Headquarters of the Irish Navy with an open letter for Commodore Frank Lynch, Chief of Naval Staff. The purpose behind this visit was to raise awareness within the Navy as to the issues around their presence in Broadhaven bay and to ask them to join in solidarity with the people of Erris rather than Shell. Text of letter follows later in this report. An initial attempt at approaching by land from Ringaskiddy was politely rebuffed by private security guards so the group went round the back to Cobh to a pier belonging to the Department of Defense from which Navy personnel are ferried back and forth to the main land.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6Brilliant, folks, keep going at 'em!
this is great stuff- any better pictures? I hope you sent out word to the media ?
time to take to the offices of those rersponsible for this surreal oppression that we have witnessed over the last week in Mayo .
MORE of this kind of action.
Standing at the G.P.O will do nothing .Well done Cork s2s .Dublin s2s pull your finger out !
Folks,
Your peaceful protest at the pier in Cobh is admirable. You made your point, and its good to see you stand up for your beliefs. Not enough people do!
But, it's naive to think that the Navy either make the rules or will refuse to follow orders. That's what a military does. It's what the taxpayer pays for and receives. Maybe some of the sailors even agree with you, but that's not the point. They are not paid to have opinions.
Better to take your protest to the Minister for Defence. (Willie O' Dea) That's if you can find him of course. He is never in his Dept. Office...
coco
For different reasons, the navy brass were less than happy to have been ordered to help the Guards put down the Corrib protests, particularly given the violent history of government tactics there and the scale of the operation ordered. That's why the info about the British sub in Broadhaven Bay was leaked to a Mayo paper. A government that gives orders that are unpopular with senior military officers knows it is using up political capital. The navy won't refuse to take orders from the government, but it will insist on determining how it implements them, and to what extent, and may even (like the sub leak) seek to undermine them. The higher up in the chain of command, the more political things get. Protests at Haulbowline highlight how the government is bent on using bigger and bigger sledgehammers to crack a relatively small nut. Good work, folks, keep the pressure on.
Great stuff.
It is important to register your Letters to the Navy command and C.c. where necessary. This really puts the pressure on them and will piss them off. Navy Command can never deny they received them.
It is then on the record and they become legally culpable in any future unsavory orders from the Government.