In the run-up to Christmas, 50 years ago, a young couple, John and Kay O’Loughlin Kennedy, held a press conference in the Shelbourne hotel to draw attention to a famine in Biafra.

The Irish public is being praised for saving the life of a starving five-year-old girl in war-ravaged Somalia.

International aid agency Concern Worldwide has launched its first ever 360-degree video, which gives viewers a deeper look at the realities facing millions of people living in extreme poverty around the world.

The traditional Concern Fast has had an upgrade.

Concern Worldwide, Ireland’s largest humanitarian aid agency, has today confirmed it is treating Rohingya refugee children for severe acute malnutrition and fears diarrhoea and other water-borne diseases could break out if sanitation needs aren’t urgently met.

An Irishwoman has issued a stark warning about malnutrition in war-torn South Sudan, where she heads up 350 Concern workers.

Tributes have been paid to humanitarian and co-founder of Concern Fr Jack Finucane who has died.

Concerns have been raised over a deal by the Irish Greyhound Board to sell the Harold's Cross Stadium in Dublin to the Department of Education.

The controversial SimSimi App appears to have been disabled in Ireland.

Violence has seeped into every aspect of life for people in Syria after six years of civil war, an Ireland based aid agency has warned.

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Concern Worldwide’s emergency response team are on standby to distribute vital supplies being airlifted to Haiti – where over 1.4 million people are in urgent need of aid following the devastation left by Hurricane Matthew.

Further increases in students taking Leaving Certificate science subjects and higher level maths have been offset by continued increases in numbers failing the exams writes Niall Murray.

Aid agency Concern saw its highest ever annual income last year, at €182.2m.

Emerging markets bore the brunt of a clamour for safety as Europe’s worst terror attack in more than a decade exacerbated a sell-off driven by deteriorating global economic growth and looming US interest-rate increases.