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TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 2013
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Priest: Jail ministers Fr Healy: Irish people betrayed ONE of Cork’s best-known humanitarians has condemned the Government for betraying the Irish people by propping up the rich at the expense of ordinary families.
Government ministers should have been jailed over promissory debt deal....that’s according to Fr Seán Healy, Director of Social Justice Ireland, who was speaking in Cork yesterday. Picture: David Keane
By PADRAIG HOARE of the current situation in Ireland was that the Government had cut 40% of funding for the community-work sector because it knew that the goodwill of volunteers would try to pick up the slack. “It has been five years since the global financial crash and austerity clearly hasn’t worked. “The debt is not reduced and the burden has not been shared. Ireland is failing its poorest people and this Government has presided over the biggest gift to the wealthy in the history of the nation. That will stand out in future generations as the worst crime perpetrated on the people. “The bleak future need not be inevitable if we change direction now. Without a vision the people perish.” Social Justice Ireland is a non-profit organisation, a registered charity and is independent of any party political or commercial affiliation ● See page four for more.
● Gary O’Flynn bailed: Page six
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Cork football manager, Conor Counihan, with his son Oisín, at Cork airport as he headed to Cheltenham. See sport for more. Picture: David Keane Picture:
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Fr Seán Healy, director of Social Justice Ireland, offered a damning indictment of Minister for Finance Michael Noonan’s declaration that the Anglo Irish promissory note deal was a good one for the country, saying members of the Government should be in jail for theft committed against the Irish people. The Cork-born activist, speaking at a community-work forum in Knocknaheeny yesterday, said that despite what he termed Government propaganda, Ireland had not turned the corner and more and more people were falling below the poverty line. Fr Healy — a native of Sullivan’s Quay and raised in Blackrock who spent 10 years as a missionary in Africa — said one of the worst aspects
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