Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin called today on countries across the world to join Ireland in outlawing cluster bombs.

Campaigners who helped secure a global ban on cluster bombs have been awarded the Tipperary International Peace Prize.

An American aid worker badly injured by a landmine in Somalia will meet today the Irish pilot who rescued him for the first time.

Survivors of cluster bombs will speak out today on whether an international conference to outlaw the weapons will make a difference to affected communities on the ground.

Details will be announced today of an international summit on cluster bombs beginning in Dublin next week.