It is a fitting recognition by a powerful industry of the contribution she has made through her charity, Chernobyl Children International.

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.

Former Miss Ireland Aoife Walsh believes in taking small steps to protect the planet.

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.

Irish actress Jessie Buckley has been making waves worldwide for her performances as an artist and actress.

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.

“Chernobyl” dramatises the 1986 nuclear accident which released radioactive material across Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.

HBO and Sky 's co-production 'Chernobyl', based on the true-life accident that occurred in Soviet Ukraine in 1986, will air next week.

Ireland's Chernobyl Children International is at the centre of a UN commemoration ceremony in New York tonight.

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.

‘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.

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

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.

The great thing about the old days was that we had the Catholic Church to deliver reproof, punishment and banishment, writes Terry Prone

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.

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

Tireless humanitarian and Chernobyl charity founder, Adi Roche, has received the highest honour from Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in Dublin.

There were emotional scenes at Shannon Airport today when 135 children arrived from Chernobyl affected areas.

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.

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.

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.

Jeremy Corbyn is not the cause of all of Labour’s problems, but is nonetheless central to them, writes Terry Prone.

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.

A veteran anti-nuclear campaigner has said Ireland should not be afraid to offend Britain by insisting on the shutdown of Sellafield.

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.

The recent Bandon Agricultural Show was opened with gusto by local girl Anna Gabriel.

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.

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.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

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.

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.”

Humanitarian Adi Roche has called on the global community to honour the sacrifice of Chernobyl’s forgotten hero ‘liquidators’.

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

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.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

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

Good morning. Here’s everything you need to know before you start your day.

Belarussians Anna and Alexi consider themselves lucky to have been adopted by Irish couples after the 1986 nuclear accident, says Jonathan deBurca Butler

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.

ADI ROCHE, founder of the charity, Chernobyl Children International, is to be given the Freedom of Cork.

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.

Chernobyl charity crusader and outspoken humanitarian Adi Roche is being tipped for the Freedom of Cork.

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.

As Eoin English’s series on Chernobyl showed, Adi Roche is undoubtedly a person of great integrity and credibility.