120 children from Chernobyl will arrive into Ireland today for a month-long rest and recuperation holiday.

The founder of the Irish charity which has helped thousands of children affected by the world’s worst nuclear accident says she hopes the global reaction to the critically-acclaimed US TV miniseries Chernobyl will translate into donations.

“Chernobyl” dramatises the 1986 nuclear accident which released radioactive material across Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.

HBO and Sky 's co-production 'Chernobyl', based on the true-life accident that occurred in Soviet Ukraine in 1986, will air next week.

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

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.

A company that counts one of Cork’s best-known businessmen among its directors has been named as a tax defaulter by Revenue.

A company that counts one of Cork’s best-known businessmen among its directors has been named as a tax defaulter by Revenue.

The results of the Charity Institute of Ireland’s ‘Charities 2037’ survey makes for both measuredly welcome and sobering reading for charities in Ireland today, writes Adi Roche

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.

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.

Chernobyl Children International are preparing to celebrate the major role that Ireland plays in helping to save the lives of hundreds of children born with genetic heart defects in Eastern Ukraine.

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.

Volunteer of the year David McEvoy helped save the lives of hundreds of people in his community over the last five years.

A veteran anti-nuclear campaigner has said Ireland should not be afraid to offend Britain by insisting on the shutdown of Sellafield.

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

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.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

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.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

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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

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.

ADI ROCHE, founder of the charity, Chernobyl Children International, is to be given the Freedom of Cork.

The Lord Mayor of Cork Chris O’Leary has seen how an Irish charity has pioneered a new foster-care model which has saved 300 vulnerable Belarussian children from a life in bleak state-run orphanages.

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.

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

Adi Roche and Ali Hewson will receive the Princess Grace Humanitarian Award from Prince Albert in Monaco tonight in recognition of their work in helping thousands of children affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

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.

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.

Adi Roche reports on how the generosity of Irish people is helping to save the lives of seriously ill children in Eastern Ukraine, including Baby Maxim, who will undergo surgery

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.