ireland's aid cuts

Hideous choices

“It’s easy enough to sit at a desk and take a red pen to a budget, chop a few million here, a couple of thousand there, until the desired bottom line emerges. But what does this mean for real people in the real world? As I sit here in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, I am faced with a dilemma.”

Will MEPs commit to overseas aid?

22 May 2009

"Appalling suffering for people on the brink"

Fintan O’Toole, writing in the Irish Times, has said that “we are currently taking a scythe to the aid budget for the poorest counties.”

“Can we throw our shoes?”

I spent the morning crammed into the Camden Court Hotel with about 100 other people from the Irish charity sector.

Justice does not end at home

 “Charity may indeed begin at home, but charity – and justice – does not end there.

Dear Taoiseach