Post campaign for free diaspora pensioners’ travel

A NEW Labour Party campaign aims to have 30,000 postcards land on the Government’s door step, urging free travel for Irish pensioners abroad.

The campaign, launched yesterday in Dublin, is primarily aimed at the hundreds of thousands of Irish citizens living in Britain, many of whom are elderly and of scarce means.

Under the Labour plan all Irish citizen pensioners who travelled to Ireland would have the same free travel rights as those resident here.