Ogle was not the ‘public enemy number one’ portrayed by the media

SOME people, egged on by hysterical sections of the media, suspected that ESB trade union boss Brendan Ogle had an agenda to destroy the State, to bring down the Government, to cause anarchy, that he was up to much more than defending the pension rights of ESB staffers.

Switching off the country’s electricity supplies through the withdrawal of labour could do some of that.

It is not as if Ogle hadn’t supplied content to support their prejudices, long before the ESB unions threatened the strike action that was withdrawn last Sunday.