Senior citizens carrying their free travel passes will enjoy free or reduced-rate entry to a number of cultural and entertainment events taking place today as part of Dublin Senior Citizens day.
There will be free of reduced entry to the Book of Kells, Dublin Castle, Writers Museum, National Gallery, National Wax Museum Plus, Croke Park, Christchurch Cathedral, Dublinia and the Viking World and ESB Dublin Georgian House Museum.
The Irish Film Institute will hold a free morning screening of Casablanca and the Screen Cinema will offer reduced entry for Singing in the Rainin the afternoon. There will be free raffles in the Ilac Centre and live music in the Ilac and GPO.
Senior citizens can call to Dublin Tourism offices on Suffolk Street of O’Connell Street on Monday to collect a map and events programme.
A spokesman for Friends of the Elderly said Dublin Senior Citizens day is the day when senior citizens from all over Ireland "are welcomed into their capital city".
He said while the average senior citizen has spent the equivalent of €180,000 during their lifetime, 130,000 senior citizens live alone - often on a state pension.
“When they were consumers they were the centre of attention and now they have become invisible,” he said.