Sir, – Since 2007 thousands of our fellow countrymen have lost their livelihoods, homes, pensions and in a number of cases when hope was lost they took their lives.
We the ordinary citizens of this country have been to hell and back in these few short years and now a section of the employment force which has been sheltered from the worst ravages of the economic downturn has decided that the ordinary majority have not suffered enough and in the depths of winter should be thrown into darkness and cold so that they can make some misguided point about apparent loss of pension rights which has not as yet been determined.
The people against whom they are making this protest will no doubt be protected against these power cuts by moving to their foreign houses or switching on their generators. The rest of us lucky enough to still have a home will find it a cold and dark place during the Yuletide festivities. Why? – Yours, etc,
DENIS O’DONOGHUE,
Ardnapondra,
Moate,
Co Westmeath.