A father of five from Newcastle West chained himself to the ESB headquarters railing Wednesday in a desperate protest at the company’s threats to disconnect him.
Seamus Sherlock, who is unemployed, travelled from his home in Newcastle West to Dublin after the ESB refused to accept his offer of paying fifty euro a week off his outstanding bill. According to reports he was left with a 2,261 euro bill when he took over the household this past June.
His protest did eventually garner the attention of management inside the building.
“I just want the people of Ireland to know what is going on with ESB,” he said after unlocking the chains and meeting with the company’s management.
He continued: “I went in to ask them to stop disconnecting people who are genuinely trying to pay bills.”
Via Irish Independent
The incident comes on the heels of an announcement by the electricity company that it is cutting off an average of 900 people a month from their supply for failure to pay.
Fair play to him.If one person can achieve this,i wonder what a million people could accomplish