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Priest: Jailministers

Government ministers should have been jailed over promissory debt deal....that’saccording to Fr Seán Healy, Director of Social Justice Ireland, who was speakingin Cork yesterday. Picture: David Keane

Fr Healy: Irish people betrayedONE of Cork’s best-known hu-manitarians has condemnedthe Government for betrayingthe Irish people by propping upthe rich at the expense of ordin-ary families.

Fr Seán Healy, director of SocialJustice Ireland, offered a damning in-dictment of Minister for Finance Mi-chael Noonan’s declaration that theAnglo Irish promissory note deal was agood one for the country, saying mem-bers of the Government should be injail for theft committed against theIrish people.The Cork-born activist, speaking at a

community-work forum in Knockna-heeny yesterday, said that despite whathe termed Government propaganda,Ireland had not turned the corner andmore and more people were fallingbelow the poverty line.Fr Healy — a native of Sullivan’s

Quay and raised in Blackrock whospent 10 years as a missionary inAfrica — said one of the worst aspects

By PADRAIG HOARE

of the current situation in Ireland wasthat the Government had cut 40% offunding for the community-work sectorbecause it knew that the goodwill of vo-lunteers would try to pick up the slack.“It has been five years since the

global financial crash and austerityclearly hasn’t worked.“The debt is not reduced and the

burden has not been shared. Ireland isfailing its poorest people and this Gov-ernment has presided over the biggestgift to the wealthy in the history of thenation. That will stand out in futuregenerations as the worst crime perpet-rated on the people.“The bleak future need not be inevit-

able if we change direction now.Without a vision the people perish.”Social Justice Ireland is a non-profit

organisation, a registered charity andis independent of any party political orcommercial affiliation● See page four for more.

● Gary O’Flynn bailed: Page six

Cork footballmanager,ConorCounihan, withhis son Oisín,at Cork airportas he headedtoCheltenham.See sport formore.Picture: DavidKeane Picture:

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