Inspirational longevity: Working at 80

Pensions have, correctly, become an election issue. Our systems — there are several — are inequitable, unreliable, and loaded. Questions around sustainability are pressing. Nevertheless, an election auction is not the best way to resolve these important issues. Despite that, tens of thousands of people, their dependents too, who have trustingly paid towards a pension over long careers fret that they face income collapse when they retire.

Though it may not pay for the heating oil or even butter their parsnips they might find just a sliver of inspiration in an early summer event announced for Cork yesterday.