VIDEO: Cork soup kitchen offers free communion clothes

A soup kitchen charity in Cork believes its free first communion clothes initiative for families struggling to meet the costs of the big day should be replicated across the country.

VIDEO: Cork soup kitchen offers free communion clothes

Cork Penny Dinners said the response to its appeal earlier this month for just one second-hand communion dress to help one needy family has been overwhelming.

So many people and companies responded that the charity, best known for feeding the city’s hungry, is staging a pop-up shop event on Sunday in the River Lee Hotel.

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