It is a fitting recognition by a powerful industry of the contribution she has made through her charity, Chernobyl Children International.
Wed, 29 Jan, 2020
Of the 6,000 babies born with heart defects in Ukraine each year, half aren't operated on due to a lack of facilities and qualified medical teams.
Mon, 23 Dec, 2019
Former Miss Ireland Aoife Walsh believes in taking small steps to protect the planet.
Thu, 28 Nov, 2019
In 2000 the Irish Examiner sent Kevin Barry, now longlisted for the Booker Prize for his novel Night Boat to Tangier, to Chernobyl. Here we reproduce what he reported.
Mon, 05 Aug, 2019
Irish actress Jessie Buckley has been making waves worldwide for her performances as an artist and actress.
Wed, 19 Jun, 2019
The founder of the Irish charity which has helped thousands of children affected by the world’s worst nuclear accident says she hopes the global reaction to the critically-acclaimed US TV miniseries Chernobyl will translate into donations.
Thu, 06 Jun, 2019
“Chernobyl” dramatises the 1986 nuclear accident which released radioactive material across Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.
Tue, 07 May, 2019
HBO and Sky 's co-production 'Chernobyl', based on the true-life accident that occurred in Soviet Ukraine in 1986, will air next week.
Thu, 02 May, 2019
Ireland's Chernobyl Children International is at the centre of a UN commemoration ceremony in New York tonight.
Fri, 26 Apr, 2019
Wild Rose looks like being a breakthrough role for Jessie Buckley, and the Kerry actress has a string of other big projects in the pipeline, writes Esther McCarthy.
Mon, 08 Apr, 2019
‘Down the park’ was for the hoi polloi, but City Hall was more bourgeois — the second leg of the Liam Miller Tribute event was an evening of glamour for the better known businessmen and professionals of Cork, where black tie was the order of the night.
Wed, 26 Sep, 2018
The presidential election race will only be fairly run if the media asks the tough questions of all candidates, including Michael D Higgins, writes businessman and presidential election candidate
Mon, 30 Jul, 2018
So we’re going to have an election for the office of the presidency. That’s very good news. As of now, it’s likely to be a two-candidate race, with a strong possibility of a third (maybe even a fourth) comingthrough the local authority route. That’s better.
Tue, 17 Jul, 2018
The great thing about the old days was that we had the Catholic Church to deliver reproof, punishment and banishment, writes Terry Prone
Mon, 09 Apr, 2018
A Belarusian-born survivor of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster has been appointed to the board of directors of Adi Roche’s Chernobyl Children International charity.
Mon, 11 Dec, 2017
The results of the Charity Institute of Ireland’s ‘Charities 2037’ survey makes for both measuredly welcome and sobering reading for charities in Ireland today, writes Adi Roche
Wed, 01 Nov, 2017
Tireless humanitarian and Chernobyl charity founder, Adi Roche, has received the highest honour from Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in Dublin.
Sat, 14 Oct, 2017
There were emotional scenes at Shannon Airport today when 135 children arrived from Chernobyl affected areas.
Fri, 23 Jun, 2017
Rugby legend Ronan O’Gara will be conferred with the Freedom of Cork City today during a ceremony which will be streamed live to the world.
Thu, 11 May, 2017
Chernobyl crusaders Adi Roche and Ali Hewson are taking several core donors who helped sustain their charity during the recession on a fact-finding mission to the nuclear disaster-affected region today.
Wed, 26 Apr, 2017
Advocate Adi Roche says the UN’s Chernobyl Remembrance Day today attests to the worst nuclear disaster which is just a millisecond into the life of the pollution it unleashed
Charity founder Adi Roche has appealed to all children and families to remember, on this Wednesday, the Chernobyl disaster which occurred 31 years ago.
Mon, 24 Apr, 2017
Jeremy Corbyn is not the cause of all of Labour’s problems, but is nonetheless central to them, writes Terry Prone.
Mon, 27 Feb, 2017
Wed, 14 Dec, 2016
The United Nations agreed last night to an Irish charity’s call to designate April 26 as UN International Chernobyl Day as a lasting reminder of the world’s worst nuclear accident.
Fri, 09 Dec, 2016
Sat, 15 Oct, 2016
A veteran anti-nuclear campaigner has said Ireland should not be afraid to offend Britain by insisting on the shutdown of Sellafield.
Thu, 08 Sep, 2016
The seats said ‘Mr and Mr’ and were indicated on Cupid’s arrows when the fashion designer, Don O’Neill, married fiancé Pascal Guellermie in front of Ballyheigue Castle, Co Kerry, on the edge of the Atlantic this weekend.
Mon, 13 Jun, 2016
The recent Bandon Agricultural Show was opened with gusto by local girl Anna Gabriel.
Thu, 09 Jun, 2016
The Rebel county is set to give the boys in green a huge Euro 2016 send-off at tonight’s international friendly against Belarus in Turner’s Cross.
Tue, 31 May, 2016
Chernobyl charity campaigner Adi Roche has dedicated her Freedom of Cork award to the survivors and victims of Chernobyl, and to her charity’s army of volunteers.
Sun, 29 May, 2016
Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today
Fri, 27 May, 2016
The article ‘Chernobyl disaster — Adi Roche deserves all our plaudits’ (Our View, April 27, 2016) makes it clear that Ireland has every reason to be proud of Adi Roche’s humanitarian work.
Mon, 02 May, 2016
Ali Hewson has revealed she uses any spare opportunity with husband Bono to try and persuade him to listen to certain matters of concern before he meets world leaders: “We have the odd bit of pillow talk. We have a board meeting occasionally over breakfast.”
Fri, 29 Apr, 2016
Humanitarian Adi Roche has called on the global community to honour the sacrifice of Chernobyl’s forgotten hero ‘liquidators’.
Wed, 27 Apr, 2016
Yesterday marked the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, a catastrophic incident that killed hundreds and still affects the lives of thousands of people in northern Ukraine, as well as neighbouring Belarus and Russia.
Eoin English writes about families benefitting from Chernobyl Children International and Irish Aid-funded outreach schemes
Tue, 26 Apr, 2016
Humanitarian Adi Roche will today call on the UN to create a “clean food fund”, to improve food monitoring, and to reinstate radiation health checks for people living in Chernobyl-contaminated regions.
Mon, 25 Apr, 2016
An institution for abandoned children was more like a ‘house of death’, says CCI chief executive Adi Roche, who has worked hard, with lots of Irish help, to make things better for the youth of Chernobyl, writes Eoin English
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Sat, 23 Apr, 2016
Belarussians Anna and Alexi consider themselves lucky to have been adopted by Irish couples after the 1986 nuclear accident, says Jonathan deBurca Butler
Fri, 22 Apr, 2016
Humanitarian Adi Roche is to make a landmark address to the UN General Assembly in New York to mark the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster the week after next.
Sat, 16 Apr, 2016
ADI ROCHE, founder of the charity, Chernobyl Children International, is to be given the Freedom of Cork.
Thu, 31 Mar, 2016
Humanitarian Adi Roche, whose charity has delivered some €100m in aid to people affected by the world’s worst nuclear accident, said she is humbled by Cork City Council’s decision to confer her with the Freedom of Cork.
Wed, 30 Mar, 2016
Chernobyl charity crusader and outspoken humanitarian Adi Roche is being tipped for the Freedom of Cork.
Thu, 17 Mar, 2016
Some of the world’s leading photographers, writers and film makers are set to take part in a new campaign run by Adi Roche’s Chernobyl Children International (CCI), to mark the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster this April.
Thu, 10 Mar, 2016
As Eoin English’s series on Chernobyl showed, Adi Roche is undoubtedly a person of great integrity and credibility.
Tue, 16 Feb, 2016
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