Tributes paid after death Concern founder Fr Jack Finucane

Tributes have been paid to humanitarian and co-founder of Concern Fr Jack Finucane who has died.

Tributes paid after death Concern founder Fr Jack Finucane

Along with his late brother, Fr Aengus Finucane, the Limerick-born priest was at the heart of famine relief efforts in Biafra in the 1960s and Ethiopia in the 1980s.

He advised Bob Geldof on the Live Aid appeal and brought Bono to the East African nation in 1985. The U2 frontman said he was a huge influence on his thinking on international development.

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