The Capuchin Franciscan friar founded Dublin’s Capuchin Day Centre in 1969 to help the homeless.

The Little Blue Heroes Foundation was set up to support families of children with serious illness.

Children were being asked to support vulnerable young people around the world by hosting a tea party in their final weeks of school.

Crowds of supporters, many holding banners, have lined the streets of the city to cheer on the runners and wave to their loved ones.

Rima Horton made the comments by Tower Bridge in London at an event highlighting the importance of early detection of pancreatic cancer.

Goal cited abrupt funding cuts in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Britain and the US as the reason behind the potential job losses

Lauren Metcalfe, 17, and her younger sister Ellamay, eight, are in the process of appealing for Easter eggs or donations for them.

Homeless charity Depaul said just around one in 20 of its service users have access to a psychiatric nurse

They have already raised more than €100,000 for the Irish Heart Foundation.

Among those who braved the elements on the Christmas Eve swim in Helen’s Bay were a couple who first met at the event last year

The huge toy-drop was the result of a Kinsale & District Lions Club appeal in partnership with CUH Charity.

David Moloney, the former chief executive of Bóthar, plans to apply to the High Court to vary an injunction that has frozen his assets

The Capuchin Day Centre in Dublin has moved to reassure people seeking help after it quickly ran out of Christmas food parcel tickets and weekly food bags

Galway man Shane Feeney will take on a gruelling 213km ultra-marathon from Dublin to Galway on December 14th for a motor neurone disease charity

A tribunal was wrong in determining that a charity shop building should be subject to commercial property rates, a High Court judge has ruled

Ms Pictor worked as financial controller and administration coordinator at the charity after she joined it in October 2008 until she was made redundant on February 11th 2022.

Festival-goers will be encouraged to donate their empty bottles and cans for charity at Electric Picnic

The workers at Cork University Hospital gathered hundreds of used bottles and cans.

Nicola Clare said support from the charity ‘pulled me back from the edge’.

John Burke pretended to be a university student gathering donations for Trócaire.

Patricia Kelly (61) is the widow of the charity's former chief executive, the late Paul Kelly.

The annual swim has raised more than €350,000 for local causes since 1984

Patricia Kelly (61) is the widow of the charity's former chief executive, the late Paul Kelly

Activist and presenter Katie Piper talks to Yolanthe Fawehinmi about the superpower of play, and why we all need to love more freely.

Sinead Canney is swapping her own home in Sligo in the coming weeks with a house in the south of the country so that she and her friends can have a free get away for their college reunion.