The Pipe
Produced in 2010

Film Information
Festival Edition 2011 - Edition 11
Section Culinary Films
Director Risteard Ó Domhnaill
Country Ireland
Duration 83 mins
Language English
Producer Rachel Lysaght, Risteard Ó Domhnaill
Cast Mary Corduff, Monica Muller, Pat "The Chief" O'Donnell
Genre Documentary
Synopsis
The Pipe is a story of the small Rossport community tragically divided, taken on the might of Shell Oil and the Irish State. The discovery of gas off this remote coastal village has led to the most dramatic clash of cultures in modern Ireland. The rights of farmers over their fields, and of fishermen to their fishing grounds, has come in direct conflict with one of the world's most powerful oil companies. When the citizens look to their State to protect their rights, they find that the government has put Shell's right to lay a pipeline over their own.