Govt pledges €100,000 to Caribbean flood victims
The Government has pledged to give €100,000 in aid to the victims of recent flooding in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
More than 500 are believed to have died when a river burst its banks and swept through the Dominican border town of Jimani on Monday morning.
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