Pyjama man denied benefit

A man who yesterday went to the social welfare office in Sligo town in his pyjamas has been suspended from collecting his €188 weekly unemployment benefit.

However, the 34-year-old, who gave his name as Snowball, was banned not because he wore pink pyjamas and a sheep head’s mask but because he refuses to sign on the biometric system that has been in use for four months.

His protest came just days after Damastown welfare office in Dublin banned interviewees from wearing pyjamas.