Care should come from local community

LIKE many others I was shocked and saddened at the plight of so many elderly Irish emigrants as depicted on the recent Prime Time programme on RTÉ.

Care should come from local community

Most commentators seem to be looking to the Government to deal with the problem but I would suggest that the responsibility rests with each community to look after its own people.

It would involve providing a site on which suitable accommodation could be built (small houses or apartments) and identifying those elderly in the UK who would like to return to their native place to live out their lives with dignity among their own people.

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