Women’s pensions were easy targets

The problem affects women who took time out of the workforce to raise children, but it is also a product of the marriage ban, writes Michael Clifford

A LUCKY phonecall to Sean O’Rourke and suddenly a buried scandal is excavated. So it went last Wednesday, when the RTÉ presenter was hosting a post-budget programme with Finance Minister Paschal Donohue.

The call highlighted a scandal that suggests this is no country for old women. But it also provided a glaring example of how some people have borne a hugely disproportionate cost to get the country back on its feet.