Thrill of the CHASE — Fighting fire with fire

MARY O’Leary would like to clear up all the things she is not.

“I am not a tree-hugger,” she says. “I am not anti-development. I am not bored. I am not a housewife with nothing to do. I am not filling in time.”

And most of all, she is not “one of these people who object to everything”, to quote a put-down she has heard all too often since she became involved in CHASE (Cork Harbour Alliance for a Safe Environment).