Cork campaigner Joanne O’Riordan is among 10 young people to win awards for their outstanding achievements in categories such as personal and cultural achievement, contribution to children, environmental leadership, and medical innovation.

Enticing social media-obsessed 20-and 30-somethings away from their screens to help out in their local communities is the aim of an initiative being launched today by Taoiseach Enda Kenny.

THE Health Service Executive (HSE) has spent almost €40,000 of taxpayers’ money to help it decide whether or not to go ahead with an accreditation exercise that may or may not help demonstrate its commitment to patient care.

A 21-year-old Clare woman has been named among the Top 10 Outstanding Young Persons of the World by a major international organisation.

A LEADING private healthcare group is to plough €100 million into massive expansions at its hospitals in Cork and Galway.

The work of Junior Chamber Ireland (JCI) has been praised by Anthony Dinan, group managing director of Thomas Crosbie Holdings (TCH) Ltd, owners of breakingnews.ie, the Evening Echo, Irish Examiner, Sunday Business Post and 15 other papers in this country and the UK.

A BASIC night out in Dublin can cost as much as 70% more than in other towns in Ireland, according to a new survey.

AS president of Junior Chamber International (JCI), the worldwide federation of young leaders and entrepreneurs seeking to advance the global community by creating positive changes, I would like to express our consternation and sorrow at the abhorrent acts of terrorism perpetrated against innocent civilians in London.

Junior Chamber International officers and European members have called for European leaders attending the two-day summit of European Union leaders which kicked off in Brussels on Tuesday to revitalize the European Social Model.

LIFE-SAVING consignments of food and medical supplies for victims of the Asian tsunami disaster are being organised by a Corkman who is the current president of Junior Chamber International.

Junior Chamber International world president Kevin Cullinane from Cobh, Co Cork, has launched JCI Operation Hope to help tsunami victims.

Corkman Kevin Cullinane has been elected Junior Chamber International World President at the 59th JCI World Congress held in Fukuoka, Japan.