Pensions ‘theft’ brings law into disrepute

IT used to be that robber states were confined to the more vicious of Third World dictatorships - or so we were told.

Now, however, as we see scandal after scandal unfolding in our ‘bright new Ireland,’ we find that we need no longer go as far as the Third World.

The latest revelations about the powerful robbing the weak and poor in Ireland shock nobody. What is shocking, however, is that the Government should seek to use the law to legalise such theft from pensioners.