Archive for April 2024

Wednesday the 10th of May was a busy day for the ISCP as we attended two Joint Committee Meetings in Leinster House with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment as well as the Department of Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands. The first meeting focused on the General Scheme of the…

“End this blatant and ageist discrimination against pensioners!” After Storm Kathleen forced the parliament to postpone a larger lobby of the Fine Gael Ard Fheis, the ICSP’s national co-ordinator, Pat Mellon, led a skeleton delegation of retirees from all four provinces to the fringes of Mr Harris’ inaugural convention as leader. The Irish Senior Citizens’…

When we think of getting older and retiring, more often than not we think in terms of a more relaxed phase in our lives, where we get to travel for a little more than the ‘week in the sun’. We see ourselves with free time and money for hobbies and new interests. This is the…