Throwing money at poor not the answer, says priest

POVERTY will worsen and people will just take more alcohol and drugs if money is thrown at the problem, the parish priest of one of the country’s poverty black spots warned yesterday.

Father Pat Hogan of Christ the King parish in Limerick’s Southill said: “Money is not the answer. In fact, money could be a trap in many cases. If you throw money you could entrap more people in poverty.

“If in Southill you throw money at poverty, the only thing many know is to get more alcohol and drugs with that money.”