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'The best thing probably about the Pensioners Parliament is that it is from the bottom up, from the people on the ground.' - Nixon Armstrong, County Armagh MPP (Member of the Pensioners Parliament) Almost 200 pensioners attended the 2013 Northern Ireland Pensioners Parliament in Belfast,…

The Pensioners Parliament, Belfast from WIMPS.tv on Youtube. Footage from the first Northern Ireland Pensioners Parliament held in Belfast on Wednesday 8 and Thursday 9 June 2011 is now available to view here. The Pensioners Parliament, which is the first of its kind in Northern Ireland, allows…

Footage from the very first 'local parliament' held in Belfast on Friday 4 March 2011, is now available to view here. The Pensioners Parliament, which is the first of its kind in Northern Ireland, allows older people from across the province to have their say…

Between 2005 and 2035, the proportion of Northern Ireland’s population of citizens older than 65 is expected to double. As a result, campaigning for policies that support healthy ageing and that push government to be responsive to the needs of older people is vital. The…

EU Parliament President Hans-Gert Pöttering and Northern Ireland’s Junior Ministers Gerry Kelly and Jeffrey Donaldson met with representatives from Suffolk Lenadoon Interface Group(SLIG) this week. The visit was part of a day long programme of EU funded project visits by the President and the Junior Ministers…

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The annual Northern Ireland Pensioners Parliament, launched in 2011, allows older people from across Northern Ireland to have their say on the issues that matter to them. 2013 marks the third year of the Parliament, which is organised by Age Sector Platform. > Learn more…

THERE WERE angry responses from many of the delegates at the Senior Citizens Parliament's annual conference yesterday on hearing that its funding from the Department of Health and Children has been withdrawn from the end of 2007. The department has funded the group, which represents…

In October 2008, in response to the sharp economic downturn, the Irish Government introduced a supplementary budget with numerous austerity measures, including withdrawal of the automatic entitlement of people over age 70 to free primary health-care and prescription medicines. The Irish Senior Citizens Parliament (ISCP)…

by BARRY BEARAK and ALAN COWELL JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's Parliament chose Kgalema Motlanthe as the country's interim president on Thursday, sealing the political demise of Thabo Mbeki, whose nine-year tenure came to an ignominious end last weekend when the governing African National Congress ousted…