A new fundraising initiative is giving every shopper in the country the chance to donate €1 to help children in or at risk of homelessness.

This letter is an urgent appeal from 14 organisations who work with children to call on An Taoiseach to show leadership on the issue of child homelessness.

The whole world changes the minute that red light goes on. Then, everybody can hear your mistakes.

Munster may have added motivation against Leinster, given their respective representations in Ireland’s Six Nations squad, but the desire to prove people wrong will work both ways at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday.

An advocate of a Yes vote in the Children's Referendum is seeking to allay fears that the state will be able to take children away from parents easily - if the referendum is passed.

Convention tells us that, for 80 minutes at Lansdowne Road this evening, men who are good friends and teammates on international weeks will put aside their friendships and substitute them with animosities born of blood.

Eoin Reddan believes Ulster have not been afforded the respect they deserve this season and warned the Heineken Cup final in Twickenham will not be the procession many predict for Leinster.

IF, as George Bernard Shaw put, youth is wasted on the young, the pity of it is that it takes so long to find that out.

AFTER 1,200 applications the nation was last night finally introduced to the 14 of Ireland’s “brightest and best” who are to battle it out to become Bill Cullen’s apprentice.

HALF of homosexual secondary school students have suffered bullying in the previous three months, a survey has revealed.

AUTHOR and businessman Bill Cullen aims to write himself into history.

WHY, oh why, do journalists always focus on the negative, the bad, the tragic side of things? On St Patrick’s Day, when the whole world wants to be Irish, Colette Sheridan thinks St Patrick would be turning in his grave.

UNIFORMS and suits will be swapped for denims in schools and businesses next month to help tackle child poverty.

The Irish Youth Foundation is extending its Denim Day fundraiser over a 10-day period, from April 20 to April 29.

Home Farm has announced a €1m sponsorship package Ireland following successful talks with Renault Ireland.

TWICE as many children are living in poor housing conditions than before the economic boom with dampness, disrepair and overcrowding part of their daily lives.

CHILDREN as young as five are caring for their ill or disabled parents, a Barnardos report revealed yesterday.

BILL CULLEN was a long, long way from penny apples when he received the Princess Grace Humanitarian Award for his enormous contribution and devotion to underprivileged children in Ireland.

Businessman and writer Bill Cullen has been awarded the first Ireland Fund of Monaco Princess Grace Humanitarian Award for his contribution to underprivileged children in Ireland.

YOUNG and old alike donned denim yesterday to raise €150,000 for disadvantaged young people across Ireland.

CHARTOPPER Simon Casey drove hundreds of children wild when he made a surprise visit to their school to highlight a nationwide fundraiser.

A CHARITY organisation has appealed to a criminal gang to return €100,000 consisting mostly of old Irish coins which was stolen during a raid in Dublin early yesterday morning.