Pensioners are suffering as energy firms clean up
FOR the love of God, how are pensioners supposed to get over this winter? We can’t get turf and the price of coal forbids us from lighting a fire to keep warm on the cold and dark evenings.
Thanks to the Green Party, even boiling a cup of water for tea is getting unaffordable due to the all the energy companies hiking up prices one after the other and still making huge profits.
Older people will be dying in their beds from hypothermia, all because our Government has sold off or given away all our energy resources to private companies to feather their own nests.
Even the cost of bare essentials like bread butter and milk have jumped up beyond affordable. Time for the grey brigade to take to the streets for a livable pension like they did for water charges.
Anthony Lafford, Glasnevin North, Dublin 11.
…WHAT makes me nervous about the Government is that it is not moving fast enough with solutions to the cost-of-living crisis.
The solution to this is to stop the energy companies making obscene profits at the expense of every other business and the general public.
Pat O’Callaghan, Mallow, Co. Cork
Christmas already
NO WORRIES about the supply of energy. No worries about the cost of energy. No worries about back-to-school problems. No worries about the rocketing cost of living. No worries about the mortgage increases. No worries about affordable Halloween.
No worries because today – September 3 – Tesco has it all sorted. It is offering three Christmas selection boxes for a fiver! Every little helps doesn’t really work on this one.
Dave Meehan, Co. Dublin.
…THIS past week I’ve seen an influx of everything Christmas. You can buy food, cards and wrapping paper and you can even book your table in a restaurant for Christmas Day!
Let’s have Christmas after Halloween, like we used to do, and not four whole months in advance, please.
Maureen Arnfield, by email.
Generosity pays
ONE of the kindest things a person can do is be generous with their time and money. Whether by volunteering or donating to charity, the efforts of one person can improve the lives of many.
Tomorrow, September 5, is International Day of Charity and I’d like to extend my gratitude to those who work for and support charities across the globe.
As CEO of YMCA Dublin, I have witnessed just how much the generosity of our volunteers, supporters and donors has affected young people in our communities. Thanks to their support, we are able to provide a broad range of programmes and activities for local communities in the city. More importantly, we can facilitate a safe space for young people to explore their interests and grow into healthy and confident individuals.
Without our supporters this wouldn’t be possible.
This International Day of Charity, I’d like to remind people that any amount of generosity, in whatever form it takes, will not go unnoticed. Thank you to all of those who support charities. You truly make a difference.
Kathryn O’Mahony, YMCA Dublin, Dublin 8.
Soccer gesture?
IN THE world of soccer there was a record spend in the Premier League transfer window this week.
I wonder will any of these megarich clubs thank the fans who made this possible by reducing ticket prices or even encouraging their ridiculously overpaid players to donate a week’s wages to charitable organisations that provide salutary relief to the poor and less well-off?
Or would that be classed as going over the top, in soccer terminology?
Vincent O’Connell, New Ross, Co. Wexford.
Greyhound disgrace
I WAS shocked but not surprised to learn of the discovery of greyhound skeletons in a Co. Kildare bog, just 2km from Newbridge Greyhound Stadium. The skulls and bones were found by a person walking in the area.
An RTÉ Investigates documentary in 2019 revealed that huge numbers of underperforming or unwanted greyhounds are killed. Shallow graves of greyhounds have been unearthed in the past at various locations, but this latest one must be hugely embarrassing to an embattled and increasingly toxic industry.
John Fitzgerald, Callan, Co. Kilkenny.