Pre-tax profits at the newly-acquired Sam McCauley Chemists group jumped 55% to €4.63m last year, new figures show.

There were emotional scenes at Shannon Airport today when 135 children arrived from Chernobyl affected areas.

Chernobyl crusaders Adi Roche and Ali Hewson are taking several core donors who helped sustain their charity during the recession on a fact-finding mission to the nuclear disaster-affected region today.

Private equity fund Carlyle Cardinal Ireland (CCI) has made its seventh Irish investment with the acquisition of AA Ireland for €156.6m.

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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.

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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

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Ireland eventing manager Nick Turner was not dissatisfied to see his team finish runner-up to the British again in the nations cup at Ballindenisk International Horse Trials yesterday, suggesting it was a realistic result.

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 is to make a landmark address to the UN General Assembly in New York to mark the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster the week after next.

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.

The Lord Mayor of Cork will visit the Chernobyl nuclear power plant next week as he leads a historic Irish civic delegation to the region ahead of the 30th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear accident.

The Irish charity, Chernobyl Children International (CCI), is embarking on a major visit to the region next week ahead of the 30th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear disaster.

Carlyle Cardinal Ireland has made what is believed to be its biggest ever investment, in Abtran — a major employer in Cork and Dublin.

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

Fighting corruption will not bring an end to poverty and casting the bad into the sea does not imply that good will come ashore, says Ricardo Hausmann.

CRH has reportedly submitted a binding bid for the Indian assets of the newly formed LafargeHolcim.

Kildare’s Alexander Butler won the grand prix at the second leg of The Underwriting Exchange Jumping In The City series at Cork’s Curraheen Park Greyhound Track.

A 70-year-old widow is preparing to embark on a gruelling 2,500km cycle to raise much-needed funding for children with a congenital heart defect.

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.

A children’s charity has thanked the public for its “overwhelming” support after a lorry containing around €140,000 worth of donations was trashed.

Fears about what is happening on the Dark Web has prompted a debate worldwide about whether ordinary users should be allowed to use bitcoin and encryption, writes Michael Moynihan

Cardiac surgeons have thanked the people of Ireland for funding lifesaving surgery on children living close to the frontline of Ukraine’s bitter civil war.

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 senior cardiologist at the General Hospital in Kharkiv, Eastern Ukraine has made a desperate video appeal to the Irish people this Christmas for help to fund and extend life-saving heart surgeries on children in the region.

A father-of-eight has scooped the top prize at this year’s Volunteer Ireland Awards for his work with a Chernobyl children’s charity.

Ireland’s men will feel the heat when they get their Champions Challenge I campaign underway against favourites New Zealand in Kuantan, Malaysia today (8am Irish time).

The finances of Adi Roche’s Chernobyl Children’s charity last year continued to worsen forcing two of its own directors to dip into their own pockets to give the charity €150,000.

Capt Geoff Curran trained his sights on Ollie Townend at the Johnson & Perrott Land Rover International Horse Trials in Ballindenisk yesterday, ruing that the Briton’s superb performance in the dressage had blown away what would generally be considered a respectable score from the Army officer.

Next month’s Johnson & Perrott Land Rover International Horse Trials in Ballindenisk is gearing up to be one of the best as the Cork venue again attracts the cream of international and national riders.

Michael Ryan was his usual assured self yesterday after riding Dromgurrihy Blue to equal 10th in the dressage phase of the Irish Field CCI three-star class at Tattersalls International Horse Trials.

A Galway-based animation company, Dancing Girl Productions, has announced that seven countries have bought their pre-school animation series for broadcast.

Ireland has won places for 13 horses and 11 riders in Badminton Horse Trials, something eventing high-performance coach Ginny Elliot yesterday described as “fantastic”.

What proved a special weekend at Ballindenisk is set to be given the Olympic seal today when the FEI publishes the list of individual riders who have qualified for London.

Jayne Doherty would be the first to acknowledge she does not do “quietly confident”.

TALK TALK gave their 575 employees in Waterford just 30 days notice that all jobs will be lost, but company bosses may have planned to quit Waterford for more than two years, it has emerged.