Payment demanded of mourning woman amoral

I am appalled at the treatment of mother-of-two Stephanie Meehan, partner of Fiachra Daly, the Priory Hall resident who tragically took his own life.

After being informed of Fiachra’s death, and having received payment from his life policy, KBC bank had the chutzpah to pursue Ms Meehan for payment of the outstanding balance, plus interest. The excuse of ‘automatically generated letters’ is incredible and the belated writing-off of the balance would appear little more than a damage-limitation PR exercise.

This amoral behaviour is hardly surprising and reminds me of the tale of the scorpion and the frog, crossing the river together. After the scorpion has doomed them both with a sting of his tale, the frog asks “why have you done this?” He is met with the reply: “Because I am a scorpion … that is my nature.”