Post Podcast on Irish Water: The warnings, the mistakes and the protests
In Deep Water, a new book by Sunday Business Post Political Editor Michael Brennan, looks at the creation of Irish Water and the emergence of the protests that eventually ended water charges
In Deep Water,a new book by Sunday Business Post Political Editor Michael Brennan, tells the inside story of the creation of Irish Water and the collapse of water charges.
In a special edition of The Post Podcast, he tells Ian Guider that, contrary to the widely-held perception, the concept of water charges was conceived in Ireland and not by the troika, with the Green Party agreeing on water meters and charges with Fianna Fáil a year before the bail-out.
The book goes into detail about how the new utility was set up by the Fine Gael-Labour coalition - including the ignored warnings, the rows and the political mistakes leading up to the protests that eventually sank water charges.
