Penny Dinners: People can’t buy food due to rising rents

A Cork charity is reporting a noticeable increase in people seeking its help because they can’t afford food due to rising rents.

Catriona Twomey of Cork Penny Dinners, which provides 1,800 meals a week to people down on their luck, said a number of families are presenting at the charity because they are either ‘put to the pin of their collars’ paying rent, or have lost the roof over their head because landlords has sold off rental properties.

Ms Twomey added that the charity is also seeing an increase in deserted wives looking for its assistance.