Readers' Blog: We still have ‘Concern’ for others, 50 years on

In the run-up to Christmas, 50 years ago, a young couple, John and Kay O’Loughlin Kennedy, held a press conference in the Shelbourne hotel to draw attention to a famine in Biafra.

In the run-up to Christmas, 50 years ago, a young couple, John and Kay O’Loughlin Kennedy, held a press conference in the Shelbourne hotel to draw attention to a famine in Biafra. 

Fr Raymond Kennedy, a Holy Ghost missionary, who had just returned from the hunger-stricken region of Nigeria, was to be a key speaker.