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# charity - Today’s News
It’s a bird, it’s a plane… No, it’s the 75-year-old Flying Nun
Sr. Patricia Wall braved a 200 km/h free-fall skydive from 10,000ft to raise money for the charity Aware yesterday.
# charity - Thursday 9 May, 2013
A man, woman or child dies from heart disease and stroke every hour in Ireland
Today marks the first day of the Irish Heart Foundation’s Happy Hearts Appeal, which it hopes will raise €500,000 over the next three days.
# charity - Tuesday 7 May, 2013
Eight things we learned about Sean Dunne from his bankruptcy
Former tycoon’s personal finances were detailed in court documents last week
# charity - Wednesday 1 May, 2013
Shatter calls for report on the activities of gangs targeting clothing banks
The minister said that he wanted to know what could be done to bring them to justice.
# charity - Monday 29 April, 2013
Abseil 200ft when you’re 80? No bother, says Ronnie
Ronnie Hurley is a founding member of the Limerick Sub Aqua Club – and the oldest scuba diver in the county, if not the country.
# charity - Friday 26 April, 2013
10 years after Croke Park spectacular, Special Olympics dreams still coming true
The organisation is appealing to the public to give generously on its annual collection day.
# charity - Thursday 25 April, 2013
Column: For women giving birth in a war zone, I was more than just a midwife
Tens of thousands have died in the ongoing, bloody conflict in Syria to date – and those who remain live under constant threat of violence. Midwife Cathy Janssens writes about trying to bring new life into the world in such unstable circumstances.
# charity - Monday 15 April, 2013
Investment company raises €100,000 for Jack and Jill Foundation
The 250 staff at the company took part in marathons and held bake sales and talent shows as well as donating its art collection to raise funds.
# charity - Friday 12 April, 2013
Iarnród Éireann offers free trips to community groups and charities
The company will provide up to 100 groups with a free group travel return journey for up to 50 people over the course of the year.
Clane RFC members embark on 170km fundraising run to Thomond Park
30 club members set off from Kildare early this morning and hope to arrive in Limerick in time for Munster vs. Leinster.
# charity - Wednesday 10 April, 2013
More than 100k people diagnosed with stroke or coronary heart disease in 2012
Irish Heart Foundation is hoping to raise €500,000 in May of this year with their Happy Hearts Appeal.
# charity - Tuesday 9 April, 2013
Gorta urges vigilance against bogus charity collectors
A 2011 survey by the Irish Charity Shops Association found that donations with a value of €11 million had been donated to bogus collectors.
# charity - Tuesday 2 April, 2013
Dublin hurler set for 1,100km cycle to raise money for heart charities
Cormac Ryan, who has a pacemaker implanted on his chest, sets off around Ireland on Friday as part of a four-man team to raise awareness.
# charity - Friday 29 March, 2013
9 striking photos from some of the worst crises of the past 40 years
From famine in North Korea to the genocide in Rwanda, these photographs offer an insight into global crises – and how the world has dealt with them.
Should charities act like private businesses to make more money?
Private businesses invest money to make money – so charities should take a leaf out of their book, a fundraising expert says.
# charity - Tuesday 26 March, 2013
Guy cycling to Oz for charity gets a bike tattooed on his arse… as you do
Aidan Murphy and Paul Quinn left Ireland on 1 September 2012 are due to reach Sydney next month.
# charity - Friday 22 March, 2013
Daffodil Day collections down 50 per cent – but you can still help
Can’t make it out in the bad weather to donate money for Daffodil Day? Here are four ways you can donate to the Irish Cancer Society right now.
Poll: Do you give money to charities collecting on the street?
Street based charity collections bring in cash but they are not to everyone’s liking.
# charity - Tuesday 19 March, 2013
11 reasons we think Glenn Close is awesome and you should too
Happy birthday Glenn, you are a legend.
# charity - Tuesday 5 March, 2013
Age Action seeks to reunite mystery photos with owner
Do you know anything about these photographs?
In pics: 40 years of the Trócaire Lenten box
Do you remember these designs?
# charity - Sunday 3 March, 2013
35,000 children to wear PJs to school to raise money for hospice care
Since its establishment in 2003, National Pyjama Day has raised over €1.73 million for children’s charities in Ireland.
# charity - Saturday 2 March, 2013
Mobile operators fail to implement directive on VAT charges for charity texts
Two years ago Revenue announced text donations would no longer be liable for VAT but charities are still not receiving this money.
# charity - Friday 1 March, 2013
Roy Keane shells out for 1966 World Cup programme, signed by Bobby Moore
And he wore a corduroy jacket to a celebrity quiz in Manchester last night.
# charity - Wednesday 27 February, 2013
Ever wondered who’d win in a race between Mark Rohan and Davy Russell?
You’re about to find out.
# charity - Saturday 23 February, 2013
Poll: Do you have a Trócaire box in the house?
It was once in almost every household in Ireland over Lent – on the charity’s 40th anniversary, we ask: Is the Trócaire box something you still use?
# charity - Sunday 17 February, 2013
€300k owed to Jack & Jill Foundation after fundraising company liquidated
Folamh Ireland is being liquidated, leaving the charity owed “a substantial amount of money” in unpaid mobile phone donations.
# charity - Wednesday 13 February, 2013
‘The route is littered with death’ – Irish adventurers recall 16,000km trek to Shanghai
David Burns and Maghnus Collins set off on the Silk Route in March 2012 to raise funds for Self Help Africa.
# charity - Monday 4 February, 2013
GOAL signs €2.5 million deal with US for Syrian aid
Millions of people are displaced as Syria experiences an extremely harsh winter
# charity - Thursday 31 January, 2013
Organisation in Dublin launches campaign to reduce street begging
The Dublin City Business Improvement District is encouraging people to place donations in new ‘giving boxes’ instead of directly to people begging.
# charity - Monday 21 January, 2013
Public urged to check in on older people during cold weather
Older people and those with mobility issues can be particularly affected by the cold snap, the charity ALONE has said.
# charity - Sunday 20 January, 2013
Three-year-old Katie Lonergan’s only wish is to walk
So far €13,000 of the €60,000 needed has been raised to send Katie to the US for the life changing surgery she needs that will give her the chance to walk.
# charity - Saturday 12 January, 2013
Column: Haiti – Three years on from devastation
The recovery from the 2010 earthquake has slowed but there are strong grounds for optimism, says Concern Worldwide Regional Director, BrÃd Kennedy.
# charity - Tuesday 8 January, 2013
Charity sees 16 per cent increase in donations to needy in 2012
The Sick and Indigent Roomkeepers Society – which was formed in 1790 – distributed €120,000 to over 200 individuals and families last year.
Poll: Would you leave money to a charity in your will?
A Dublin woman left €500k to an animal welfare charity in her will, which will be split between two Limerick charities. Will you be leaving money to charity in your will?
# charity - Thursday 3 January, 2013
Irish adventurers near end of 16,000km trek from Istanbul to Shanghai
Maghnus Collins and David Burns are 450km from the finishing post but more challenges are in-store.
# charity - Friday 28 December, 2012
Woman allegedly ‘set up fake fundraising scheme’ for Newtown victims
The 37-year-old from the Bronx allegedly claimed to be the aunt of one of the victims.
# charity - Tuesday 25 December, 2012
My Christmas Day: Boiled meat with the prospect of scorpions
Merry Christmas from Maban, South Sudan, where Niamh Fleming-Farrell sends dispatches from the frontline of aid workers there.
# charity - Monday 24 December, 2012
VIDEO: Bono and Glen Hansard busking on Grafton Street this evening
They were joined by Lisa Hannigan to sing for charity in the city centre.
# charity - Saturday 22 December, 2012
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