The heartwarming tale of pay-it-forward with a 173 year gap.
173 years ago, Ireland was starving. 3 million people either died or were forced to emigrate due to the potato famine. Amid that crisis, a tribe of Native Americans collected $170 – worth $5000 in today’s money – and sent it to help the Irish people. Now the Navajo nation tribe has itself been badly affected by the Coronavirus and reached out to the Irish people for help. I spoke to Naomi O’Leary from https://www.theirishpassport.com/ on the Newsroom Programme on the BBC World Service.
Joe Lynam 