Cork Penny Dinners pleads with Government to use 1916 money to help homeless

The key figure in a charity which is feeding almost 2,000 people a week has issued an impassioned plea to government to divert some of the €22m 1916 commemoration funding to help the hungry and homeless.

Cork Penny Dinners volunteer co-ordinator, Caitriona Twomey, said properly funding the services which help the most vulnerable of society would be a more “fitting tribute” to our 1916 heroes.

“Because I’m sure the people who died for Ireland in 1916, for our freedom, would be very unhappy with the state of affairs in our country today,” she said.