Time to end the shameful pension disparity

IT was breathtaking reading your report on the luxurious lifestyle that awaits Dermot Ahern, at our expense, as he rides off into the sunset leaving in his wake a destroyed country and thousands of wrecked lives.

Instead of calling them to book, we are required, under the present rules, to cosset Mr Ahern and his colleagues, protecting them from the hardships that their ineptitude contributed significantly to creating, while we struggle to get by.

The figures simply staggered the mind of the vast majority of people with modest pensions and those having to rely on the State pension are beside themselves with anger at the sheer injustice of it all.