Fifth of Irish say relative evacuated from cities in WWII

Almost 20% of Irish people claim to have a relative who was involved in Operation Pied Piper, the mass movement of millions of women and children from British cities in the first three weeks of the Second World War.

Research to mark the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the war on September 3, 1939, has also revealed that over half of people (52%) here have a living Irish relative who can remember the hostilities being officially declared.