Irish Water continues to get a raw deal, but the public are to blame

What use is a utility, if not as a scapegoat? Except that the scapegoat is now so starved it can’t carry the load, writes Victoria White.

TO hear Morning Ireland berating Irish Water this week for its “shameful record”, because the equivalent of 120,000 people’s raw sewage enters the environment every day, was surreal.

Hold it now. This utility has been hounded to within an inch of its life by every media outlet, including RTÉ, since the day its then CEO, John Tierney, divulged it was spending €85m on consultants.