Cork charity doubles number of ‘penny’ meals

A CORK charity is serving more than double the number of meals from two years ago and expects to become even busier as the recession continues.

Cork Penny Dinners – established by the Quakers after the Famine – provides hot lunches five days a week to those who are down on their luck.

The operation, which is run out of a building at Little Hanover Street, is manned entirely by volunteers under the control of a multi-denominational committee. It survives thanks to donations.