Irish Times: Gas protests part of 'global frackdown'
Events in Galway, Leitrim, Cork and Belfast coincided with up to 100 events across the US, Europe and Australia, including a “Poetry Against Fracking” event in Vitoria, Spain, and protests at the British Liberal Democrat party conference in Brighton.
In Carrick-on-Shannon, Co Leitrim, some 150 protesters lined the town’s bridge across the Shannon.