Woman who confronted Taoiseach says people in west are ‘ignored’

The Roscommon resident who confronted Taoiseach Micheál Martin on Tuesday has explained that she took the opportunity to vent the frustration of her neighbours over the response to Storm Éowyn.

Rachel Connolly said this was the fourth time in 12 months that her community had lost power.

“Each storm it just gets worse and the power goes out for longer,” she told Newstalk radio.

Ms Connolly asked why there could not be stores of generators in place around the country that could be utilised when storms hit.

She said the climate was changing and such extreme weather events were going to become more frequent and more intense, yet there was no preparation, just “a knee jerk response” from the Government.

Living without power was difficult, she said, but living without water was much more difficult.

She said people in the west felt there were two words to describe their situation: “Forgotten and ignored”.

Ms Connolly said she had taken the opportunity to raise the issue with…

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