The five Irish charities that have received €30m from the estate of Laois woman, Mrs Elizabeth O’Kelly, are set to share an additional €1m from the estate.

Cork chairperson Treacy Kennedy has hailed the "incredible gesture" of JP McManus who has donated €100,000 to each of the 32 county boards.

McClean has previously donated thousands of pounds to families in Derry and across Ireland to fund operations or help at times of tragedy.

A controversial lifetime ban on gay men donating blood in Northern Ireland has been lifted.

The last surviving prosecutor of the Nuremberg trials has donated $1m to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's genocide prevention centre.

So cute.

France has conceded there is no scientific point in the ban of homosexuals giving blood. It is well beyond time that Health Minister Leo Varadkar lifted the stigma hanging over all gay men in this country, writes Shaun Connolly

A US university is returning a $1m (€930,000) contribution from soft drinks giant Coca-Cola to start a group dedicated to ending obesity.

The ban on gay men giving blood should be lifted, Equality Minister Aodhán Ó Ríordáin has said.

A cancer-stricken girl who got a hefty contribution posted in Taylor Swift’s name has received thousands of additional dollars in donations.

Jame Harrison is known as 'the Man with the Golden Arm'.

Or you're dead inside.

In keeping with the Good Friday tradition, high priests are baying for blood — except this time the cause is life and not death by crucifixion.

Should women opt for anonymous, or non-anonymous sperm donors? And should they tell their child how they were conceived? For most it’s an agonising decision, writes Helen O’Callaghan.