Trócaire and Christian aid support women parliamentarians from Myanmar, Pakistan and Sierre Leone attending recent International Congress of Women’s Caucuses in Dublin.

“Over the past few weeks and months we have witnessed an unprecedented polarisation of attitudes on immigration and refugees, culminating in a dramatic and repugnant rise in race hate crime since the referendum.”

Humanitarian personnel in South Sudan operate against a backdrop of protracted conflict, chronic poverty, economic crisis, severe food shortages and weakened infrastructure.

“Every single year, poor countries lose approximately €150 billion due to tax dodging by wealthy individuals and companies.”

People have been catapulted into dire suffering, unable to return to their homes, and now in urgent need of food, clean water and shelter.

Feast of music to be presented in St Patrick’s Cathedral by singers drawn from city's two communities.