The pensioner who stood up to the ESB

“You picked the wrong place here” - Teresa Treacy to ESB consultant Shane McLoughney, April 2007. On Thursday she was released from jail, still vowing to protect what is left of her carefully nurtured wooded estate from the pylon men and their diggers.

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