‘Reverse heartless move against women’

ANGRY women from all over the country protested at the Department of Social and Family Affairs in Dublin yesterday over the axing of their contributory state pension.

An estimated 200 farming women with banners and placards demanded that Minister Mary Hanafin fully restores the pension taken from them in January in what they described as a disgraceful decision.

In addition, to the withdrawal of the pension, the department also sought the refund of the payments made to some women.