In Deep Water
9781781176580
Published on 13. September 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-78117-658-0 (ISBN)
Description
Irish Water was set up in 2012 to introduce the most ambitious water metering programme in the world. The plan was to get Irish people to finally pay to upgrade a nineteenth-century water system. The water metering programme began in August 2013 and was carried out at breakneck speed. However, it did not go to plan and the issue of water charges divided Ireland. There were nationwide demonstrations, and confrontations in housing estates involving water meter contractors, gardai and water charge protesters. The programme ended in political disaster, with a humiliated government having to send out one million refunds.
With access to unpublished documents, and interviews with the key personalities on both sides, In Deep Water provides a blow-by-blow account of how it all went wrong. The rows at cabinet. The warnings that went unheeded. The water women. The smartphone-wielding protesters. And the minister who threatened to reduce people's water to a trickle.
Compulsively readable and fast paced, In Deep Water gives an inside view of the controversy that divided Ireland.
With access to unpublished documents, and interviews with the key personalities on both sides, In Deep Water provides a blow-by-blow account of how it all went wrong. The rows at cabinet. The warnings that went unheeded. The water women. The smartphone-wielding protesters. And the minister who threatened to reduce people's water to a trickle.
Compulsively readable and fast paced, In Deep Water gives an inside view of the controversy that divided Ireland.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cork
Ireland
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78117-658-0 (9781781176580)
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Michael Brennan is the political editor of the Sunday Business Post. A native of Milltown, Co. Galway, he received a degree in journalism from DCU. After working with Midwest Radio and the Irish Emigrant newspaper in Boston, he joined the Irish Examiner in Cork, where he won the Young Journalist of the Year award in 2004. He later worked with the Press Association in Dublin, and for the Irish Independent for seven years as political correspondent and then deputy political editor. He joined the Sunday Business Post as political correspondent in January 2014 and was promoted to political editor in May 2016