When England was being blitzed during World War 2, one of the main factors in maintaining the morale of the population was the strong, confident and decisive leadership of Winston Churchill.

The pylon debate has reached a new low in the ‘persuasive’ measures utilised by Eirgrid and the Government.

IT comes as no surprise that the seven-year struggle for people to be heard on the Tara/M3 catastrophe should culminate in arrests and imprisonment. It is indeed a sorry day for democracy when a society fails so miserably to listen to its own citizens; when people find the only option left is physically to resist the destruction of that which they care about.