Bono’s wife leads protest against oil drilling near their posh home

Eighty (80)% of the drilling off southwestern Ireland "accrue to the State," only the State's 80% will repay European Banks...England's Elizabethan State surveyed over 570,000 acres of the Fitzgeralds there, before confiscating them...just as the land passed through to others, without the return of sizable lands by a free Republic, the oil proceeds will pass through to Europe's bankers, bailing out the profiteers of Ireland's real estate bubble, all while ignoring a free Ireland's REAL real estate bubble - the one to the Fitzgeralds and, in Northern Ireland, to the O'Neills. Three cheers for Ali's environmental issues! Until Ireland restructures its debts leading to a restored "cultural integrity," all offshore resource development should be suspended.

SeamusMartin: These Killiney - money kept abroad - jumped-up posh-oes have forgotten about those who ( to continue your song) ... " ... work all day for the sugar in their tay, down behind the Railway! Drill ye Tarriers Drill! ...and Blast! and Fire!" Yes, an old collier ballad from NE England, but we get your meaning. Besides she already looks out on Dublins 'Twin Towers' the industrial cooling towers of the Pigeon House electricity power station at the mouth of Dublin Port docks where the Liffey enters Dublin Bay! - incidentally, one of the most treacherous rip-tide bays in the world. - maybe they should go for a dip at the Forty Foot!

Drill ye Terriors drill! JUST MAKE SURE OF TWO THINGS: 1) Don't skimp on ANY saftey measures regarding air, land, sea, flora, fauna and humans AND 2) make sure the people in the Republic all benefit from it (money wise)!

It's the usual hypocracy of the NIMBY elite Liberals. Sure go drill in some other place. Just like the Kennedys used their influence to stop the construction of wind turbines off their Hyannisport, Mass compound, but championed wind power in other places.