well done to all involved

crazygeryy

it's great to hear stories like this. I'm glad it had a happy ending.


http://www.limerickpost.ie/index.php/navigation-mainmenu-30/local-news/5097--widow-warm-again-thanks-to-post-readers.html

Kess73

And yet we live in a country that will be happy to see fuel costs and food costs rise again this winter.

A country that has no problem giving people like that poor woman less to live on each year.

Everyone who helped her deserves massive praise for the truly great thing they have done, but it is scary in this day and age that people keep slipping through the cracks of society and end up simply existing rather than living.

That woman was someone's aunt, someone's relative, someone's friend and yet she was let stay in a house without any source of heat for over a year. The house would have been constantly cold and probably has damp problems at this point as well.

If ever there was a newspaper story that should have people keeping an eye out for any elderly folk in their areas or any elderly relatives then this story should be it.

juneg

what has the country come to?

osarusan

Kess73 wrote: »

And yet we live in a country that will be happy to see fuel costs and food costs rise again this winter.

A country that has no problem giving people like that poor woman less to live on each year.

Who is 'happy' about the rising fuel and food costs, or that woman's pension being reduced?

washman3

And the likes of Bertie,Cowan,McCreevey,Harney,McDowell,Cullen,Fahy and their property developer friends and backscratching cronies, walk off into the sunset without a care in the world or a question to answer...:mad:

Kess73

osarusan wrote: »

Who is 'happy' about the rising fuel and food costs, or that woman's pension being reduced?

Maybe happy was a poor choice of word, but it is still a country where those making the decisions will bring in measures time after time that impact brutally on the most vunerable in society.

At the end of the day people like the lady in the article should be able to have some quality of life and not simply be trying to survive to the next day or to the next week.

Going to bed at 14:00 every day just to conserve body heat? That is simply heartbreaking to read, and as horrible as her lifestyle must have been, the raw loneliness being suffered by a person being forced to live like that must be crushing.

I keep an eye on my mother by making sure her house is always stocked and what not, and I do the same for an elderly relative living near Foynes, but the article made me think about the bigger picture and about how many people in this country have basically become like unwanted pets who were dumped.