Irish-based businesses are recruiting and expanding across a wide range of sectors. Here is a selection of people who have moved into interesting new roles.

Climate change is increasing global hunger, with some countries worse off today than a decade ago, a new study shows.

Jason Kennedy visits Turkana, Kenya where the population is experiencing drought. So many children are malnourished and don’t know where their next meal is coming from.

Irish potatoes have prevented another major humanitarian food crisis in one of the poorest and most remote parts of Ethiopia, Concern Worldwide has said.

Concern Worldwide worker Kieran McConville has just returned from Mozambique and reflects on the desperate conditions the thousands of cyclone victims must endure.

The fuller than full house made the whole thing worse. More than three hundred guests were gathered in a massive dining room in the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin, at lunchtime last Friday, for the inaugural Women of Concern awards.

The government has announced the commitment to an additional €9m to go to underfunded humanitarian crises.

An Irishwoman has issued a stark warning about malnutrition in war-torn South Sudan, where she heads up 350 Concern workers.

Tributes have been paid to humanitarian and co-founder of Concern Fr Jack Finucane who has died.

The co-founder of one of Ireland's largest charities, Concern, has died.

A leading digital expert has plans to develop the south-west into a digital hub that could help transform business in the area and attract considerable investment, having done likewise in one of Australia’s biggest cities.

Irish aid organisations are to receive more than €60m in government funding this year.

Leading trade unionist and prominent Labour supporter David Begg is set to earn €100,000 over the next five years after being named the new chair of the Pensions Authority.

SINCE its creation in 1948 the World Health Organization has played a leading role in the elimination or containment of deadly diseases like smallpox, tuberculosis, malaria and HIV/AIDS.

Dominic MacSorley, CEO of Concern Worldwide, says 60m have been uprooted from their homes by war and poverty. World Refugee Day should give us pause for thought    

One of the world’s largest recorded disasters resulted in the deaths of more than 300,000 people, and has taken years to recover from, writes Dominic MacSorley

Much of the reporting around ebola is rife with rumours and misconceptions,writes Fiona McLysaght.

Irish rugby star Rob Kearney is urging men to step it out for charity — in a pair of high heels.

The atmosphere in Sierra Leone where the deadly ebola virus has so far claimed almost 300 lives is not so much one of panic as one of grave concern, according to Clare native and Concern worker, Fiona McLysaght.

An outbreak of Ebola has claimed almost 400 lives in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone this year, but isolating the sick and good hygiene can stop it dead, writes Alistair Short.

South Sudan is the world’s newest nation state, but internal conflict is pushing it to the brink of disaster, says Joe Cahalan

A senior Irish aid worker has warned that Lebanon is in danger of becoming destabilised by the conflict in neighbouring Syria.

In May, I succeeded Tom Arnold as chief executive officer of Concern Worldwide.

The rain started as a drizzle and then fell in sheets, filling the patchwork shelter of Abdul and his wife, Nasra, with the loud clamour of raindrops pelting their canvas roof.

He may be tackling tough questions about who will manage the boys in green, but FAI chief executive John Delaney took time out to launch a different type of football challenge.

RTÉ is to withdraw its US correspondent from Washington but has denied it is closing its US bureau.

RTÉ is set to close its Washington DC bureau for at least four months in a further cost-cutting measure.

IN THE 1960s, the Green Revolution — which included the development of high-yielding crop varieties, the expansion of irrigation infrastructure, and the distribution of modern fertilisers and pesticides to developing country farmers — bolstered agricultural production worldwide.

Concern Worldwide has appointed Dominic MacSorley as their new CEO.

Veteran Irish explorer Pat Falvey believes global warming was to blame for the lightning strike which killed Ian McKeever.

Ireland exudes the milk of human kindness with seven out of 10 people saying they experienced a kind act in the last week.

Fresh from an exciting Ireland U20 career, outside centre Foster Horan is looking to make a giant leap into the professional ranks with London Irish over the next few months.

Ireland is donating €8m to the fight against global hunger, Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore said today.

CONCERN Worldwide and Trócaire would like to pay a joint tribute to the Irish public this Christmas for the remarkable response to the east Africa emergency appeal.

OFFALY dairy farmer Kevin Heavin has been selected as Macra na Feirme’s FBD Young Farmer of the Year after an exciting final in the Seafield Hotel, Gorey, Co Wexford, last night.

AID from an Irish humanitarian agency has reached more than half a million people stricken by famine in the Horn of Africa.

Aid from an Irish humanitarian agency has reached more than half a million people struggling to survive the famine in the Horn of Africa.

IT was, by Rob Kearney’s own admission, a strange thing to be sitting in the Shelbourne Hotel last Friday afternoon as his Leinster team-mates prepared for their Magners League semi-final that evening against Ulster.