Feargal Sharkey is on a mission to clean up Britain’s rivers and to force water companies, regulators, and MPs to do their bit 💧 In an interview with cahalmilmo, Feargal_Sharkey explains why the issue caught his attention and what needs to be done
which has become Sharkey’s trademark in his migration from lead singer of 70s and 80s punk band– to a gentlemanly eco-warrior bristling with facts, figures, ideas and finely-honed arguments to advance the cause of exposing and reversing river pollution.campaign. And be in no doubt, this one-time punk rocker is up for the fight.
“Their shareholders have benefited to the tune of about £72bn while leaving those companies saddled with just over £60bn of debt. Bearing in mind we privatised those companies completely debt free, we’ve been had.” To understand Sharkey’s affinity with rivers it is necessary to step back in time to Derry’s Catholic Brow-of-the-Hill School where as an 11-year-old pupil he was required to choose six extra-curricular activities, including Gaelic football and hurling – a sport which he points out is responsible for the wonky Sharkey nose “finely sculpted by three foot of ash otherwise known as a hurling stick”.
It was Mrs Sharkey who insisted that her family drive across Ireland to take part in civil rights protests in 1969 and her youngest son remembers vividly how the kitchen table in the family home would frequently host meetings of local campaigners – “the housewife, the plumber, the unemployed” – determined to achieve social justice for Catholics in Northern Ireland.
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