‘We will freeze without our fire’

ROMANA KENNEALLY is most shocked by the cutting of fuel allowance entitlement from 32 weeks a year to 26 weeks.

The East Cork mother-of-two lives in a council house built in 1939, and from September to April, has an open fire roaring all day long.

If she didn’t, she says, the house at Belmont in Cobh would be ice-cold.