150-year Quaker connection to Penny Dinners ends

The resignation of a senior figure from Cork’s Penny Dinners charity has ended a 150-year Quaker link to the soup kitchen.

Florence Harrison, a member of the Religious Society of Friends, last night confirmed she has resigned from her voluntary position on the committee which runs the Quaker-founded soup kitchen.

Her decision means there is now no Quaker presence on the Penny Dinners’ committee for the first time since its foundation in Famine times.