Don’t take away hope, pleads priest

POLITICIANS had no right to take hope away from residents in socially deprived areas of Limerick, the parish priest of Southill said yesterday.

Fr Pat Hogan made his comments as controversy continues over comments by Defence Minister Willie O’Dea that the Government hasn’t the money to fulfil its part of the deal.

Distrust, he said, had grown between the people and the powers that be in the city.