Elderly friends in Dublin city freeze to death, found days later by health officials

Press reports here said he had had a row with the Gas Company over charges, and ordered them to disconnect six years ago using electricity instead. Dublin City Council (DCC) Local Authority Housing are connected to natural gas supply by An Bórd Gáis Éireann (BGÉ). You get a gas card which you can top up at your local retailer and recharge the meter back home. There's a standing charge, whether you use it or not of in excess of €1 per day. A friend of mine moved into a DCC property some years ago, charged the meter with a €50 top up, which read as €25, because the flat had been vacant for some time before him. A virtually uncontactable Gas Company (as uncontactable as DCC purely nominal Estate Management) failed to reimburse him. I suspect this may be a dynamic in this case. Also, much DCC accomodation is allocated to people with mental health issues, who really should be institutionalised, but who are returned to the community under the clinical pretext of it being better for them, when the primary motivation is cut backs in Governmental Department budgets. Politicians lie, and people die!

What else would you expect buying Alcohol instead of heath ??

So sad. This tragedy is like a scene out of Strumpet City.

This indeed is the apotheosis of Ireland under the EU and the anti-Irish ruling class who have ruined the country in so many ways. Mor mo naire, mo chlann fein a dhiol a mathair.