Two pensioners, including a man in his 70s, have been injured in a suspected gas explosion in Bolton.

Fianna Fáil is to raise the Government’s failure to address pensions inequalities which are denying tens of thousands of women full payments. 

The Government has promised to put forward proposals to address, by December, pension rules which discriminate against tens of thousands of women amid claims that it deliberately ignored the crisis in Budget 2018.

Pensioners and lone parents look set to receive increases in State payments, but not all social welfare recipients will benefit from the autumn budget.

Demographers — and pension advisers — have been warning us about the implications of Ireland’s ageing population for some years but our response has been more head-in-the-sand than get-up-and-go.

Only a third of retired people say a shortage of money never prevents them from doing the things they would like to do.

Older people invariably pay more than any other age group for health insurance and older people are more likely to be unaware of corporate plans available, writes Gráinne McGuinness.

The company who took over Cork County Council's refuse service, Country Clean, has reduced the council's old age pension waiver by €10.

TDs are to investigate how the HSE manages an account containing over €100m in money belonging to pensioners.

The social protection minister says it wouldn't have been fair to give pensioners another increase this year and give nothing to other welfare recipients.

Four people foraging for edible wild plants or bamboo shoots have been killed in bear attacks in a small area of northern Japan in three weeks, police said.

The “grey vote” was also front and centre of the coalition’s attempts to be returned to power when the next election is called.

Ireland’s pensioners are among the happiest and wealthiest in the EU, according to figures released ahead of International Day of Older Persons tomorrow, but those under 65 are among the most at risk of poverty.

Over 163,000 children under the age of six have now been registered for free GP care.

Ireland spends less money on social welfare payments to pensioners than any other country in the EU.

Ireland’s pensioners are the happiest group of people in the country - happier than students, young families, and most other people in the EU - and cite their health as the primary cause of that happinness. 

The Government’s apparent disregard for the hardship caused to older people by austerity measures is "disturbing", Age Action said yesterday.

I have returned to Ireland having spent 32 years living and working abroad.

Elderly people are being warned to be vigilant for scam artists claiming to be post office or bank officials wanting to replace fraudulent notes mistakenly handed out to pensioners.