Mountjoy probe over Treacy’s RTÉ interview

THE governor of Mountjoy women’s prison has launched an investigation into “unauthorised” phone contact by Teresa Treacy, the 65-year-old jailed for refusing the ESB access to her land.

The Offaly farmer, who is serving her 22nd day behind bars, was interviewed on a phone line from her cell by RTÉ’s Miriam O’Callaghan for Tuesday’s Prime Time.

She was jailed on September 13 for disobeying a court order to allow the ESB onto her land to remove trees for the construction of a power line.