Sir, – During the last ESB strike I visited an old lady living in a small cottage in Terenure. She suffered very badly from rheumatoid arthritis, being in pain and with limited mobility.
I discovered that due to a power cut, for several hours she had been sitting in darkness, with no heating and no way of even making a cup of tea. A letter from me, telling of her plight was published in this paper at the time.
I have no doubt this sort of situation, or worse, will happen if the threatened strike takes place.
While I have every sympathy with people who fear the loss of their pensions, it seems to be a very callous way of trying to achieve a resolution to the problem. And also unfair to inflict misery, perhaps unemployment and hardship on those who have done nothing to cause the difficulty.
There must be some compromise, on all sides, or the whole country will suffer. Is there any patriotism out there? – Yours, etc,
VERELL BOOTH,
Aubrey Park,
Shankill,
Dublin.