Firms hope fresh proposals resolve power line row

EIRGRID and the ESB are hoping fresh proposals will resolve the stand-off with jailed Co Offaly woman Teresa Treacy.

Treacy, aged 65, of Woodfield House, Clonmore, Tullamore, was jailed on September 13 after repeatedly defying a court order letting workers remove trees and build a power line through her land.

Protesters have erected a number of tents and huts on Treacy’s land in the past week. They claim to have her permission to occupy the site.