Irish give €2.5m – but aid effort ‘chaotic’

AS Irish people make record amounts of donations to the Haitian earthquake disaster, efforts to get emergency aid to victims is being described as “random, chaotic and minimal”.

Hundreds of thousands of hungry Haitians are waiting for help, many of them in makeshift camps on streets strewn with debris and decomposing bodies.

With Haiti’s police overstretched, UN peacekeepers unable to provide security and people turning more desperate by the day, hundreds of looters swarmed smashed shops in Port-au-Prince in a second day of violence.