Stand with Teresa and fight the bullies

AS I write, a 65-year-old woman remains locked up in Mountjoy prison on an indeterminate sentence.

Her “crime”? To refuse ESB/Eirgrid access to construct a high-voltage power-line through the native woodland she has planted and nurtured on her and her sister's own land. Neither would she accept a €150,000 payment from Eirgrid to withdraw her objections, which normally works for less strongly principled land-owners.

So the State has obligingly locked her up to keep her out of the way while Eirgrid sends in the boys with the diggers. Bullies get their power through picking off their victims one by one; but if the whole schoolyard turns around in the victim’s defence the bully becomes compelled to find some other, more co-operative way to behave.