Irish Examiner View: Pensions apartheid highlighted again

If pensions are a surprise election issue then the reaction of the major parties is not surprising. Ignoring sustainability and officially sanctioned inequity all stayed within our conventional, failing idea of pension provision.

Minor tweaks, policy reversals and, inevitably, reviews of the State retirement age were all promised. However, not one party dared engage with the elephant in the room — how pensions can mean so many different things to so many different groups.