A fund to help an Irish nurse killed in a freak accident in Australia has reached a staggering €65,000 in less than 24 hours.

The family of a grandfather who suffered a serious head injury after being involved in an accident in Portugal say they are trying to raise the funds to get him home on an air ambulance to Ireland.

A fundraising campaign has raised more than €1,000 for a two-year-old boy who is critically ill in the Canary Islands.

The community of Newport in Co Tipperary has banded together to help raise €100,000 for one of its residents, 29-year-old Kevin Bourke who has a rare form of cancer.

The search for a missing Irish man on Mount Everest will resume in the next three days.

The 29-year-old was killed in Derry on Thursday night after she was shot in the head amid riots in the city.

Ireland is the most generous country in the world in terms of contributions to GoFundMe causes.

Battling cancer for 12 years, young Dublin girl Robyn Smyth faces a new fight against the disease as she flies out to the US today.

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

A fundraiser to help a three-year-old boy undergo a life-changing medical procedure in the US has raised over €13,000 in under three weeks.

A teenage boy who was told his cancer in the skull was terminal in Ireland is back in Cork celebrating Christmas after a successful life-saving operation in the States.

A Go Fund Me page which was set up just two days ago for a young Corkman who incurred a traumatic brain injury after an accident involving an electric scooter while on a long weekend in Los Angeles earlier this month, has raised €66,000.

From helping fight for repeal to medical incidences abroad, crowdfunding platforms like GoFundMe and Kickstarter are proving popular with the Irish, writes Joyce Fegan.

A desperate Meath mum has revealed her huge struggle to meet everyday living costs as she helps her teenage son battle a rare form of cancer.

Hundreds of people have rallied to help a popular horse-loving teenager who faces a long road to recovery after sustaining a serious brain injury.

Two Irish Rugby players answered 'Aisling's Call' today when they sang the rugby anthem to a young Meath woman who is recovering from an acquired brain injury.

A fundraising campaign for a teenage girl from West Cork has so far raised over €22,000 of a €85,000 goal.

Only five months after Jack O’Driscoll was left paralysed in a freak accident during Storm Emma, the Corkman already has his sights set on returning to sport as a paralympian.

A young man who was paralysed from the chest down after he fell while out in the snow with friends earlier this year is determined to return to his native Cork in the next few months following the completion of his treatment at the National Rehabilitation Hospital.

An Irish man who was seriously injured following an incident in Australia last New Year’s Eve has returned home to Ireland.

Random acts of kindness can’t get enough publicity as far as we are concerned and here is one that will really warm the cockles of your heart.

An Irish man whose fight against cancer attracted over $100,000 in donations has died with his wife by his side.