'We feel deeply let down': An Post pensioners protest in Cork to demand end to pension cap

An post pensioners, from left, Donal Mullane, Bill Cronin, Paul Moreland, John Stokes, and John Delaney at the protest outside the GPO on Oliver Plunkett Street. Pictures: Larry Cummins

An Post pensioners protested in the rain in Cork City on Friday morning to demand the scrapping of a pension cap following their “decade of sacrifice”.

The Post Office Pensioners United group, which represents about 700 retirees, some in their late 80s and early 90s, demonstrated outside the city’s GPO to highlight how their pension increases have been capped under the terms of a decade-long deal, introduced in 2013, to help save the company's pension fund, which was in serious deficit at the time.