Rosa Parks? I don’t think so

stand, if anyone has a right to feel discriminated against, it’s the vast majority of travellers on buses and trains who have to pay for a ticket while these pensioners get their trips for nothing.

One easy way to eliminate all discrimination would be to charge everybody to use public transport. But I somehow suspect Mr Barry wouldn’t be too happy with that solution. Anna Doyle, Adare, Co. Limerick. HOW ridiculous Solidarity TD Mick Barry is. It was he who came out enraged over the suggestion that pensioners with free travel be charged if they travelled during rush hour.

Invoking Rosa Parks, he said: ‘There was a famous individual who was told to go to the back of the bus and we all know what happened next. Discrimination is not acceptable in our society.’

He really ought to stop and think for a moment before he opens his mouth. As things