Up to 3,000 people attended a cost-of-living protest in Cork City today, with many attendees warning that they face the stark choice of deciding between “heating or eating” this winter. Friends Annette O’Mahony, 62, and Sheila Hegarty, 64, who live in Mahon and Dublin Hill, respectively, say they are terrified about the uncertainty surrounding rising heating bills this winter. Annette says the Government is living on “another planet” in suggesting that people “put on extra clothes this winter” in order to stay warm. She says many people would dip into their savings to pay their utility bills but “nobody has savings any more". It is single people.”Gerry Miller from Patrick’s Hill in Cork City says he has been paying taxes since 1966 but all the money seems to be doing is “propping up lame-duck governments".

Source: Irish Examiner September 17, 2022 22:51 UTC