Retired religious deserve a break

We all get very angry if elderly people are neglected or are being overlooked in their needs.

There is a category of elderly people in Ireland today who have given their whole lives in caring for Irish people freely but who are now very dependent on care and help themselves because of the weakness of old age.

I speak of the great numbers of ageing religious sisters, brothers and priests (numbers of them returning from lifelong labours in missionary countries).