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.

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.