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A nationwide cookery challenge has been launched by World Missions Ireland as part of a drive to highlight its campaign to provide one million dinners for children in the developing world and promote its many mission projects. Missionary Children is its’ dedicated children’s charity and every cent raised under its fundraising division goes to children’s projects in Africa, Asia and Oceania. Soprano Celine Byrne, GAA sports star Dermot Earley, RTE Rugby pundit Brent Pope and Mary O’ Rourke, former government minister, are supporting the cookery challenge for contestants to devise a dinner menu to feed a family of six for €5. The entries will be whittled down to just five and a cook off will take place between the finalists in October, the traditional month of mission. Jackie Pallas, national secretary of Missionary Children, said it is one of the huge global injustices that so many people are dying from food poverty every day. “Millions of people are going to bed hungry every …
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