Call for designated shopping hours for elderly after Cork pensioner targeted
Elderly rights campaigner Paddy O'Brien: The effect a callous crime like this can have on older people is appalling. It can affect them for the rest of their lives.' Picture: Jim Coughlan
A leading elderly rights campaigner has called on large shopping centres to introduce "designated safe and secure shopping hours" for older people after thieves targeted a pensioner in the aisles of her local supermarket.
Paddy O’Brien, who has spent over 60 years advocating for older people, made the suggestion on Friday after details on a robbery in Cork City emerged.
