Donie Cassidy (Fianna Fail)

More than 1,000 people and Senators attended a moving ceremony at Murrisk, County Mayo, to commemorate those who died during the Great Famine. The Famine Memorial Park is under the shadow of Croagh Patrick. I congratulate the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Pat Carey, for the dignified manner in which he represented the Government and addressed the gathering. The commemoration, which was a formal State recognition of what happened to our people during the Great Hunger, was attended by ambassadors representing 14 countries, including the United States of America, China and Australia-----