Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Poverty in Ireland

There are 780,000 people living below the poverty line in Ireland.

Five hundrd and twenty thousand adults have poor literacy skills.

Last year the Saint Vincent de Paul Society received 130,000 calls for assistance.

Today, the feast of St Dominic, it would be intersting to know how the Spanish saint would react to such deprivation in a land of plenty.

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