protest at ban on rossport 5 postering

dublin | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Thursday September 29, 2005 14:06 by rory hearne

further infringement of civil liberties

Protest at Dublin City Council over ban on advertising Rossport 5 march

Dublin city council silences campaign

Protest 1.15pm Friday 30th September, Dublin City
Council Civic Offices Wood Quay; Free speech for
Rossport five campaign: lift the ban.

Protest at Dublin City Council over ban on advertising Rossport 5 march

Dublin city council silences campaign

Protest 1.15pm Friday 30th September, Dublin City
Council Civic Offices Wood Quay; Free speech for
Rossport five campaign: lift the ban.


Dublin city council has effectively banned
advertising for Saturday's Rossport Five national
demonstration in Dublin. It is now 92 days since the five mayo men went to prison for protecting their lives and those of their families and neighbours. The Shell to Sea campaign in Dublin has been legally erecting posters which advertise Saturday's public rally around the streets of Dublin.
However Dublin City council have taken all the posters
down.

We believe that this is an
infringement of civil liberties and a further attack
on the human rights of the 5 men in prison. Dublin
city council's ban breaches human rights law; Article
10 of the European Convention of Human Rights states
"Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This
right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to
receive and impart information without interference by
public authority and regardless of frontiers".

Dublin City
Council's ban on temporary posters advertising the
plight of the Rossport 5 and their families is
compounding injustice upon injustice. This should alarm
all persons who are concerned with basic democratic
freedoms being discarded by unelected officials.

It is legal (according to Section 19(7) of the Litter
Pollution Act 1997) to put up posters for a public
meeting once they are removed seven days after the
event. However, Tom Loftus, head of waste management
at Dublin City Council and Owen Keegan, Director of
Traffic both said that "it was a management decision"
to enforce this ban on postering.

Protest takes place at 1.15pm Friday, Civic Offices,
Wood Quay. Contact Martin at 087 6187722 or Rory at 086 1523542

PROTEST MARCH SATURDAY 2pm PARNELL SQUARE