Funding of €500,000 has been announced to continue to support the work of Men's Sheds groups across the country.

Labour leader Brendan Howlin has accused rival left-wing parties and Independents of acting like they are part of "the United Nations" instead of trying to help their communities on local councils.

Thousands of young people will gather in Dublin this weekend to exhibit a range of projects aimed at improving their local communities.

Don Cahalane stated in his letter (March 26) concerning the modernising of the Catholic Church that “the Church at its most basic is a community of believers”!

One of Barack Obama’s initiatives begun a decade ago in the US has strengthened civil society by innovative means over here, writes Pádraig Hoare.

Many people will celebrate the new year tonight, but others in rural communities are living in a state of anxiety about what 2019 will bring.

The ambition for CUH to develop to become a ‘great hospital’ is both real and attainable, writes Tony McNamara.

A Co Waterford community, fighting against a proposed wind farm, has sent protest letters and a video message to a German energy company behind the project.

A fundraising drive has been launched to safeguard a woodland walk in a popular coastal retreat in West Cork.

Celebrating community spirit Dubbed the Oscars of the community sector, this year’s Pride of Place ceremony takes place on Leeside for the first time with over 800 entrants vying for glory, writes Helen O’Callaghan

Fiann Ó Nualláin says next weekend’s Cork Food Harvest Festival will be a mouthwatering one.

The Men’s Sheds association is filling a gap of comradeship and community, writes John Daly, as he headed to Cork to attend the largest gathering of the association in the world.

While we take physical workouts very seriously, there is much less said about the “workouts” that help us remain mentally agile and healthy.

Money from dormant bank accounts will be used by the government to fund new community projects across the country.

Poverty and marginalisation are deeply rooted and change will not happen overnight — but tangible results will be realised in time, with the right interventions, says Anastasia Crickley.

By mid-April, 900 rural projects with a value of more than €26.2 million were approved for LEADER funding.

Community spirit was alive in Co Kildare today as hundreds helped clear the snow ahead of Monday's return to school.

The numbers of community gardaí have been axed by almost 40% in the last seven years and continue to fall in many divisions.

Community supported agriculture might be the future of farming, writes Joyce Fegan

Many older people say they feel lonelier at Christmas than at any other time of the year.

The Duchess of Cambridge has spoken about taking Prince George to his school and the importance of supporting young children.

The ferocity of Storm Ophelia was such as to subdue even the most hardened and to remind all of us of the awesome power of nature. 

Blackberry season is one of the few times of year when it’s clear that you can’t banish nature from the city, even though we try, writes Clodagh Finn.

More than 20 people have been killed in an attack on a community in Benue state in central Nigeria, according to local leaders.

The Armenian community in Ireland will bless a cross in memory of those who died in the 1915 atrocities at Christ Church Cathedral this afternoon.