Teresa Treacy
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6th October 2011 Teresa Treacy was freed following 22-days spent
locked up in Mountjoy Prison after a judge ordered her release. Ms. Teresa Treacy
(65) of Woodfield, Clonmore, Tullamore, Co. Offaly, Ireland, was jailed on
the 12th of September 2011
for failing to comply with court orders permitting EirGrid and the ESB
to run power line with pylons through her property. Determined to
fight for the welfare of forestry on her land, Ms Treacy refused to purge her
contempt and was taken to the Dóchas Centre at Mountjoy Prison on September
13th. A number of
demonstrators have vowed to continue the fight on her land. Letters of
support to Teresa Treacy, can be sent to her at: Teresa Treacy, The Dochas
Centre, Mountjoy
Prison, North Circular
Road, Dublin 7, Republic of
Ireland. Alan Shatter,
the Irish Minister for Justice, can be contacted at minister@justice.ie or
info@justice.ie |
Family:
Elder sister Mary, her brother Patrick (62) and his three
daughters, Edel, 30, Ann, 29, and Audrey, 26.
Support
Groups:
Teresa Treacy
Teresa
Treacy Support Group
Petition - FREE TERESA TREACY, WHO STOOD UP TO
EIGRID & THE ESB
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/free-teresa-treacy-the-woman-who-stood-up-to-eigrid-an.html
Petition for the Release of Teresa Treacy - Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Petition-for-the-Release-of-Teresa-Treacy/273021952722030
Teresa Treacy - Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Teresa-Treacy/164471736970470
Free Treacy Treacy – Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Free-Teresa-Treacy/252971501410556
Free Treacy Treacy – Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Free-Teresa-Treacy/275465865811440
Video Links:
Gridlocked
RTE Prime Time 4th
October 2011 http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=1115399
Free Teresa Treacy
29th September 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYpdIdM0PWU
Vigil For Teresa Treacy
23rd September 2011 http://vimeo.com/29562255
Woman jailed for blocking ESB
TV3 12th September 2011 http://www.tv3.ie/article.php?article_id=62615&locID=1.2&pagename=news
Press Reports:
Pensioner
released but vows to continue tree protest
Irish Independent 7 October
2011 http://www.independent.ie/national-news/courts/pensioner-released-but-vows-to-continue-tree-protest-2899402.html
Woman jailed over power line stance
freed
Irish Times 7 October 2011 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/1007/1224305389269.html
Teresa Treacy released in
trees v power lines row
Irish Examiner 6 October 2011 http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/teresa-treacy-released-in-trees-v-power-lines-row-523367.html
Concern Grows For
Teresa
Tullamore Tribune 6 October 2011 http://www.tullamoretribune.ie/articles/news/23567/concern-grows-for-teresa/
Family of jailed woman express
distress over case
Irish Times 5th October 2011 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/1005/1224305257177.html
Treacy offered compromise by Eirgrid
Offaly Express 5 October 2011 http://www.offalyexpress.ie/news/local/treacy_offered_compromise_by_eirgrid_1_3119752
United Left Alliance TDs call for release of Teresa
Treacy
Socialist Party 04 October
2011 http://www.socialistparty.net/component/content/article/797-united-left-alliance-tds-call-for-release-of-teresa-treacy
ESB picketed over jailed pensioner
Belfast
Telegraph 4 October 2011 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/republic-of-ireland/esb-picketed-over-jailed-pensioner-16059024.html
Meet Ireland’s most unlikely martyr: The
little old lady sent to prison for trying to save her trees.
MailOnline 18th September
2011 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2038740/Teresa-Treacy-Irelands-unlikely-martyr--sent-prison-trying-save-trees.html
65-year-old sent to jail over refusal to let
ESB work on her property
Irish Examiner
13th September 2011 http://examiner.ie/ireland/crime/65-year-old-sent-to-jail-over-refusal-to-let-esb-work-on-her-property-167284.html##ixzz1Y84V7Z7c
Last
update: 08 October 2011