“2019 is the first year in 30 years that most of the philanthropic giving in Ireland is Irish”
We like to think of Ireland as a generous nation and most charities are now raising the bulk of their donations during the Christmas period. But new analysis by Benefacts shows that contributions from private individuals have been in decline for decades, while the exhaustion of Chuck Feeney's Atlantic Philanthropies' funds has caused institutional giving to fall off a cliff. The organisation's managing director Patricia Quinn joins Thomas Hubert to discuss the findings with research co-authors Dr Oonagh Breen of UCD and Dr James Carroll of Trinity College.
