Nicholas O’Halloran began to give up on getting the double lung transplant he needed. Now he is living a life of hope, he tells Helen O’Callaghan.

The Cork Simon Annual Fundraising Ball is set to raise up to €100,000 to support men and women in Cork affected by homelessness.

A fundraising page has been set up to aid a Kerry woman who recently made an emotional plea for respite care for her son.

Cork Chamber has launched a six-month funding drive to raise €200,000 in partnership with Social Innovation Fund Ireland (SIFI).

The family of a two-year-old girl who are fundraising for life-changing surgery for her have been the victims of two attempted break-ins.

A fundraising campaign launched by friends of a young Cork man who suffered a traumatic brain injury in the US following a freak accident has raised €90,000 to help fund his recovery.

A lobby group is raising funds in advance of Christmas to help struggling military personnel feed their families and keep a roof over their heads.

A young Irish woman who raised over €700,000 for pioneering cancer treatment in the US is on the way home from Texas.

A Mum, whose daughter has lived more than half of her fighting to stay alive, has revealed she is finding it “impossible” to raise the necessary funds to continue with her vital medical treatment in the US.

A teenager with a terminal brain tumour who raised €140,000 for his treatment abroad is to travel to the US on June 9th for what his family call potentially "life saving surgery."

They read like miniature epitaphs, writes Joyce Fegan.

A teenager whose older brother died of a muscle disease is staging a fundraiser in his memory.

Latest: Almost €40,000 has been raised online since 9am this morning for a Cork mother of five who lost all of her belongings in a house fire which occured just one month after her husband passed away from cancer.

An Irish teenager has broken a European record for the most successful appeal for money for cancer treatment.

Students are being warned by University College Cork management of the disciplinary and legal repercussions of misbehaving or disrespecting local residents ahead of their annual fundraising week.

A suburban Chicago gun shop is raffling a semi-automatic weapon to benefit victims of the nightclub shooting in Orlando.

It was launched just over a month ago, but a West Cork community’s visionary ‘buy-a-brick’ scheme has already raised one-third of a €15,000 target — money which will be put towards the cost of a job-creating entrepreneur incubation complex.

The going in Thurles is very good and conditions are favourable for a special fundraiser in aid of a local school’s autism unit.

Thousands of volunteers are hitting the streets this morning collecting for the Special Olympics as part of their national fundraising day.

Bono is launching a “once-in-a-lifetime experience” campaign which could see winners spend time with the U2 singer, George Clooney or Kim Kardashian.

Mainstay Medical, the Dublin healthcare firm on the verge of a breakthrough in chronic back pain treatment, is considering a further round of fundraising as it prepares its main product for market.

A lavish fund-raising effort from Kerry GAA chiefs in New York, Chicago and Boston has helped put a €1 million dent in the cost of the Kingdom’s proposed Centre of Excellence at Currans, near Farranfore.

Friends of Karen Buckley have raised more than £30,000 (€41,680) to help the family of the missing Irish student.

A huge fundraising concert is being planned to help a skilled horseman recover from a devastating spinal injury.

Sinn Féin's US fundraising arm brought in over $12 million in the past two decades, from trade unions, construction firms, and Hollywood celebrities.

Ronan Winter, originally from Dublin, was diagnosed with cancer six months ago.

A sell-out concert at Cork’s City Hall has helped to raise vital funds towards the recovery from a stroke of Evening Echo reporter Deirdre O’Reilly, herself a champion fundraiser for charity.

Dazzling daffodils held their pretty heads high in all sorts of new places for Ireland’s longest-running fundraising day. Being the month of many weathers, and after being washed out last year, the Irish Cancer Society was taking no chances.

A large sporting event has been organised in memory of teacher Alan Feeley who died of a brain haemorrhage last November.

Ireland’s gourmet capital is set to go pink this weekend for one of the country’s top cancer fundraisers.

She may have enjoyed it, but the mum who leapt into a pool with two alligators says she plans to stay firmly on dry land now.