No Eirgrid, no encore

Though I am not a historian, I do believe that we should learn from the mistakes of our past. George Bush in his own eloquent way, once attempted to say, ‘Fool me once — shame on you. Fool me twice — shame on me’.

While contemplating this, I was struck by the similarities between recession Ireland of the late noughties and plans by present-day Eirgrid.

During the boom times there were hundreds of housing estates built. Eirgrid want to build hundreds of pylons.