Pensioners will give democratic come-uppance

With media focused entirely on the Government lurching daily from farce to fiasco, another significant injustice to pensioners has slipped under the radar, i.e. the unilateral elimination of the Transition Pension for 65-year-olds.

This represents a loss of €12,000 to those who have worked and paid PRSI all their working lives, up to 40 years in many cases. Workers did this in the legitimate belief and expectation that they would receive this money on retirement.

Contrast this shakedown of ordinary Irish citizens with the kid-glove, hands-off treatment by the Government of their own lavish pensions and perks. Just like those in the previous Fianna Fáil government, present ministers, as well as the president of our bankrupt little State, will retire on unsustainable, world-class, six-figure pensions and golden pay-offs.