Column: Today's countries in need are tomorrow's trading partners
Ending global poverty means changing the way we view overseas aid and development – which is why the public have been invited to share ideas about Ireland’s contribution to the world stage, writes Joe...
View ArticleIreland to give €700,000 to war-torn Mali
The money will be used to help refugees and internally-displaced citizens of the west African country.
View ArticleOverseas volunteers worth €10 million and almost 500 jobs to Irish economy —...
Two reports released today detail the scale of work by Irish volunteers overseas and suggest public support is still strong for such activities.
View ArticleIreland gives 4,500 blankets, 150 tents and 2,100 mosquito nets to Niger
About 8,500 families have been displaced because of recent flooding.
View ArticleIreland falls farther behind on international aid commitment
For a sixth year in a row, funding for Irish Aid was cut bringing it down to €602 million.
View ArticleNational state of calamity in Philippines as Irish aid agencies call for support
The declaration allows the government to impose price controls and quickly release emergency funds with looting now a problem.
View Article100 tonnes of Irish aid due to arrive in the Philippines
The UN estimates more than 11.3 million people have been affected with 673,000 made homeless, since Haiyan smashed into the nation’s central islands on Friday.
View ArticlePoll: Should Ireland give more to the Philippines?
The country has already sent aid worth €1.5 million to the island…but is it enough?
View Article"Not proportionate": GOAL calls on Government to increase funding for...
The NGO is calling for an increase to the €1 million already committed.
View ArticleUS aircraft carrier steams in to Philippines as UN admits slow response
The head of the UN humanitarian fund says that six days on, logistical problems mean help still hasn’t reached some places.
View ArticleIn the wake of the storm: Before and after photos of Irish bar show extent of...
The tiny island of Malapascau, and the ‘Evolution’ resort run by Irishman David Joyce, were in the direct line of the storm when Haiyan hit nine days ago.
View Article'That dive guide is now homeless. So is the waitress who made your mango...
An Irish scuba resort owner on a tiny Filipino island is raising funds that go directly to stricken communities in the area, which he says has been ‘flattened’.
View ArticleIrish officials flying out to Philippines to assess aid strategy
Latest figures estimate 4.3 million people lost their homes, double the number of those made homeless by the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004.
View ArticleIrish students help to train Mozambique’s first ever optometrists
The first ever eye specialists have recently graduated from university in Mozambique thanks to the assistance of students from DIT.
View ArticleIrish aid with strings attached: Should Ireland help countries that deny gay...
Conditional aid in return for human rights improvements – is this to be the future of development aid?
View ArticleThe numbers that show how UNICEF helps the world's poorest children
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was signed in 1989. How far have we come?
View Article'We genuinely closed the Vatican embassy for cost reasons... but no one...
Department of Foreign Affairs officials have been discussing the still-controversial closure of the Vatican embassy 26 months ago. It has since been decided to reopen it.
View Article'Not appropriate' to cut Irish aid to Uganda over anti-gay laws
The Department of Foreign Affairs has argued that aid to the country is going to directly assist some of the poorest people in the world and that it’s a matter of educating people.
View ArticleAlmost 10 years on from the Asian tsunami: what's happening to coastal...
Shoreline communities in countries like India were the hardest hit in 2004′s devastating tsunami. But thanks to Irish assistance, almost 40,000 people in desperate need were helped.
View ArticleIreland is to send €3 million more aid to the Philippines
The Government has also committed to long-term relief efforts.
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