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

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.

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.

Eoin English writes about families benefitting from Chernobyl Children International and Irish Aid-funded outreach schemes

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

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

Two men from Cork are taking two weeks out of their time to transport vital aid to help people whose lives were destroyed by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

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.

A Cork schoolgirl is being hailed an “inspiration” after using €1,000 of prize money she won to fund lifesaving surgery for a baby in the Ukraine.

Two directors at Adi Roche’s Chernobyl Children’s charity have dipped into their own pockets to shore up the charity’s finances by giving it €319,000.

One way or another, the decision of the European Commission to back the building of a nuclear power plant in Somerset in southwest England, just 150 miles from the Irish coast, closer than Dublin is to Cork, will rekindle debate on the burning question of whether or not Ireland should go nuclear. Despite Government assurances that the new plant will not pose any danger to this country, opposition to the project is already growing among those who fear it will pave the way for more atomic plants across Europe.

Nearly 28 years ago, the Chernobyl disaster struck Ukraine. With the prospect of a Russian invasion looming, all sides should beware of atomic warfare, says Bennett Ramberg

A MAJOR international mission to investigate Japan’s wrecked nuclear complex began yesterday as new information suggested that two more reactors suffered a meltdown in the aftermath of the tsunami.

A major international mission to investigate Japan’s wrecked nuclear complex began today as new information suggested that two more reactors suffered a meltdown in the aftermath of the tsunami.

RUSSIAN President Dmitry Medvedev called on the world community to tighten safety rules at nuclear plants and tell the truth when there were accidents like those at Chernobyl and Fukushima.

The world is today marking the 25th anniversary of the worst ever nuclear disaster at Chernobyl.

TWO disabled Belarusian girls destined for a life in grim mental institutions have achieved their dream of walking — thanks to 14 corrective operations carried out by Irish surgeons.

JAPAN raised the crisis level at its crippled nuclear plant to a severity on a par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, citing high overall radiation leaks that have contaminated the air, tap water, vegetables and seawater.

TIGHTER controls on food coming from Japan are being put in place by the EU but some MEPs have warned they may not be enough to protect people from the dangers of radiation contamination.

THYROID cancer for sure.

JAPAN continues to grapple with a potential nuclear catastrophe after a fire continued to blaze at the stricken Fukushima plant last night.

TIRELESS Chernobyl campaigner Adi Roche has scooped what has been described as the “Nobel Prize for Children” for her continued efforts to improve the lives of children living in the shadow of one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters.

FIRES have scorched forests contaminated with radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, a Russian forestry official said yesterday, but it was unclear what danger the smoke from such wildfires could pose.

THEY say a picture is worth a thousand words — and the artistic young people of Mahon will be the talk of the Cork suburb after completing a mural commemorating the Chernobyl disaster.

A film-maker nominated for an Oscar today revealed how she braved the most radioactive place on earth to relive a true story.

The anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster will be marked this week by highlighting the plight of millions of people living in the aftermath of the catastrophe.

THE Irish ambassador to Belarus is en route to the capital, Minsk, to try to end the travel ban on children affected by the Chernobyl disaster.

DIPLOMATIC efforts are under way to get Belarus to lift a threatened ban on children affected by the Chernobyl disaster from travelling to Ireland for holidays.

ALLOW me to comment on your report (September 19) of the Association for the Study of Peal Oil and Gas conference in Cork.

TABLE soccer, a giant gladiator jousting bed, a rodeo bull and a hotel that turns into a casino… and that’s just for the adults.

I WISH to congratulate you for publishing the excellent letter from Derry Chambers on the nuclear power industry (Irish Examiner, January 22).

FEARS over the threat posed by the Sellafield Nuclear Reprocessing Plant to Ireland have deepened following yesterday’s guilty plea by the operators to a massive leak of radioactive fluid at the plant in Cumbria.

DEBATE on whether or not Ireland should go nuclear has been kick-started by one of the country’s leading educationalists, who yesterday made the surprising claim that, compared to other means of production, atomic energy is safe.

I WOULD like to express my immense admiration for the efforts of the thousands of Irish volunteers that have helped the victims of the Chernobyl disaster for the past 20 years.

NUCLEAR energy for Ireland was firmly ruled out yesterday as Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said he was completely opposed to the possibility.

NUCLEAR energy for Ireland was firmly ruled out yesterday as Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said he was completely opposed to the possibility.

More than 5,000 opposition protesters massed in the Belarusian capital Minsk today to mark the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster despite police fencing off a downtown square where they had planned to rally.

Ukraine marked the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster today with pealing bells, candlelit ceremonies and parliamentary debates about how much the country still does not know – and how much it needs to do to bring relief to the millions affected by the world’s worst nuclear accident.