Covid-19 changes Christmas Day lunch plans for Cork Penny Dinners

Volunteers will deliver meals and gifts to those in hostels, hotels, and B&Bs

Caitriona Twomey of Cork Penny Dinners with knight riders Ryan McEvoy, College Rd, and Keith McInerney, Hanover St, on their way to give out food parcels to people on the streets in Cork City. Picture: David Keane

Cork Penny Dinners has, for the first time, been forced to cancel its annual Christmas Day lunch for service users due to Covid-19 concerns.

Volunteers were downcast but defiant in the Little Hanover St premises of Cork’s oldest charity as they came to terms with the news that their Christmas lunch cannot go ahead this year.