Penny Dinners appoints new group of trustees

One of the country’s oldest soup kitchen charities has dismissed criticism and appointed new trustees as part of a major restructuring.

Cork Penny Dinners, which has links to Quaker-run soup kitchens dating from the Famine in the 1840s, also defended its decision to refuse access to about 10 people to its EGM in the city last night.

50 members attended the EGM in its premises at Little Hanover St but there were tense scenes outside when a doorman refused access to two former members, and a group of non members, who are understood to be unhappy with the way the charity is being run.