President honours Famine victims

Remembering the victims of the Great Famine should encourage Irish people to intervene wherever there is injustice and hunger around the world, the President has said.

Michael D Higgins attended the national famine commemoration in Kilrush, Co Clare, where he honoured and grieved for our ancestors who suffered and perished.

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