Brady urges support for each other in recession

THE biggest challenge facing the Irish people over the coming year is to offer encouragement to one another in a time of national depression, according to the head of the Catholic Church in Ireland.

Cardinal Seán Brady has urged people to have a positive attitude over Christmas and into the future to avoid prolonging the current recession.

“Just as an individual may spiral down into a state of depression, so too a community can allow itself to be overwhelmed by negativity.