08/10/2026
Trócaire is deeply grateful to Galway businessman and Supermac's founder, Pat McDonagh, who has pledged €500,000 to support vital aid programming gap left by global aid cuts.
It is expected that aid cuts could lead to more than 22 million avoidable deaths by 2030, including 5.4 million children under five.
Mr. McDonagh's first €100k donation will go to Trócaire’s health programme in Somalia to supply medicines, support health centres and tackle violence gripping the region.
As Trócaire CEO Seán Farrell said at this week's announcement at Galway Plaza,, “Overseas aid has been cut dramatically in the last two years, resulting in the suspension of humanitarian projects and affecting over two million people in Somalia alone.
Pat’s support will have an immediate impact on some of the most vulnerable communities in Somalia. Trócaire runs the only health facilities in the Gedo region, nearly five times the size of Connacht and serves a population of between 40,000 and 100,000 people.
Without this life-saving funding, the health facilities would have run out of essential medicines.”
Pat McDonagh said, “My wife, Una, and I have supported Trócaire for decades and witnessed the impact of its work first-hand during a visit to projects in Zimbabwe in 2014. We are delighted to commit €500,000 over the next five years to support Trócaire in delivering vital aid and creating lasting change for vulnerable communities.”
Thank you Pat for supporting the world's most at-risk communities so generously at a time of such urgent humanitarian need.
📸 Andrew Downes
