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

Isabel Conway spots the travel trends for the year ahead.

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.

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.

Around 400 people have marched in Minsk to mark the anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, and protest against the construction of a nuclear plant in Belarus.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Reading Svetlana Alexievich’s ‘War’s Unwomanly Face’ gave Nina L Khrushcheva an insight into the emotions her own relatives experienced as they fought, and survived, the Second World War

Adi Roche and Ali Hewson have been presented with a global humanitarian award.

Ashlee Vance looks at how Maria Sharapova has become the wealthiest female athlete in the world

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.

A nine-year-old Belarussian girl has become the second generation of her family to be hosted in Kerry as a relief from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which took place 28 years ago.

Chernobyl children campaigner Adi Roche has warned that political turmoil in Ukraine is jeopardising the safety of the damaged nuclear reactor which she said was “a ticking time bomb”.

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

Japan racked up a record current account deficit in January, and lowered its growth estimate for the October-December quarter in the latest sign of hardships for the world’s third-largest economy.

The Irish Sea is one of the most nuclear polluted, because of the number of nuclear power stations and facilities on its English, Welsh and Scottish coastlines, and because its partial enclosure leads to a build-up of pollutants.

A leak of highly radioactive water at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant could be the beginning of a new disaster, Japan’s nuclear watchdog said.

Japan’s nuclear watchdog is proposing raising the risk level of the leakage of highly radioactive water at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant from “an anomaly” to a “serious incident.”

The Japanese nuclear watchdog said it is taking the leakage of highly radioactive water at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant seriously.

Contaminated water with dangerously high levels of radiation is leaking from a storage tank at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the most serious setback to the clean-up of the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.

I thought I had reached my incredulity threshold.

Japan is marking the second anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami which left nearly 19,000 people dead or missing and more than 300,000 people still displaced.

Old-guard veteran Shinzo Abe was voted back into office as prime minister of Japan today and immediately named a new cabinet, ending three years of liberal administrations and restoring power to his conservative, pro-big-business party that has run the country for most of the post-Second World War era.

A strong earthquake has shaken north eastern Japan, NHK TV said. A tsunami warning has been issued.

A Japanese cabinet panel has called for the phasing out of nuclear power over the next three decades as part of an overhaul of the country’s energy policy following the Fukushima meltdowns.

A protest took place at the gate of a Japanese nuclear power plant as it was restarted — the first such facility to go back online since the country shut down all of its reactors for safety checks following the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

A protest has taken place at the gate of a Japanese nuclear power plant as it was restarted today – the first such facility to go back online since the country shut down all of its reactors for safety checks following the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Japan’s government today approved bringing the country’s first nuclear reactors back online since last year’s earthquake and tsunami led to a shutdown of reactors nationwide.

Disaster-battered Japan reported its biggest annual trade deficit ever today, a contrast from decades of surpluses, as a nuclear crisis boosted expensive oil and gas imports.

For 70-year-old Toshiko Murakami, memories of the terrifying earthquake and tsunami that destroyed much of her seaside town and swept away her sister brought fresh tears, exactly a year after the disaster.

People across Japan today remembered the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck the nation one year ago, killing just over 19,000 people and unleashing the world’s worst nuclear crisis in a quarter century.

A group of Japanese businessmen have invited the founder of Chernobyl Children International, Adi Roche, to take part in high-profile ceremonies to mark the anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Japan’s prime minister has acknowledged that the government failed in its response to last year’s earthquake and tsunami, being too slow in relaying key information and believing too much in “a myth of safety” about nuclear power.