President honours Famine victims

Remembering the victims of the Great Famine should encourage Irish people to intervene wherever there is injustice and hunger around the world, President Michael D Higgins has said.

At the national Famine commemoration in Kilrush, Co Clare, he honoured and grieved for our ancestors who died.

The president warned that commemorating the Great Hunger should not be a form of self-absorption in victimhood, or an inward-looking exercise in nostalgia.