‘How are we supposed to live off €200 a week?’

ELLEN REDDIN lives alone in Ballymun, Dublin, and wonders how she is going to be able to afford her retirement.

Wed, 22 Nov, 2006 - 00:00
Conor Ryan

“I am 67 so I am only an apprentice old age pensioner. At the moment I am trying to find out how I am supposed to live off the pension.

“I really don’t know how, in the name of God, I am going to live off it.

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