If we’re so well off, how come so many suffer the effects of poverty?

A very pertinent question was asked by Fr Peter McVerry, one of the leading activists on homelessness in this country, when he was in Cork this week.

It is this: What is the legacy of what now appears to have been phase one of the Celtic tiger?

Peter McVerry comprehensively answered the question in his address in the Cork Institute of Technology, and more of that below.