Madam, – I write regarding “Appalling irony of council’s crass act of eviction”, by Patsy McGarry, Opinion, May 21st).
As one who has witnessed at close hand the devastating financial, security, emotional, spiritual and psychological trauma of eviction, I am appalled to read that in 2010, Famine memorials or not, any county council could behave in this way, to a family who clearly have lost jobs due to an economic situation they did not create (Home News, May 15th).
The thought of a mother coming home to this after her part-time night job is simply intolerable. Even if there are, as you surmise, possibly other details, it doesn’t matter. If the staff at the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council had any idea of the lives of many people in this country, they would be able to work with this family in a humane way and with the help of organisations like Mabs, to come up with a solution and financial repayment plan. Indeed it even appears that there was such a plan.
It is not acceptable to me as a citizen of this State that our public service can treat people with such cruelty. I demand that it reverses its position and I ask others to join me. – Yours, etc,