Ireland has been ranked in the top five best countries in the world for children to grow up in.

Time for a new culture on climate change.

Dublin welcomed its first baby of the new decade this morning.

Ronan Farrow is pivotal to the pursuit of film producer Harvey Weinstein on sex allegations, writes Terry Prone.

UNICEF have announced plans to vaccinate 67,000 children in the Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

The government is considering making vaccines for children mandatory.

169 million children worldwide have missed out on the measles vaccine in the last eight years.

Asylum seekers from as diverse countries as the Ukraine and Burundi plan to go on a tour of direct provision centres all around the country next year in a bid to spread their message of hope.

The figure is according to a new report from UNICEF that looks at mortality rates in 16 countries that are going through conflict.

Today marks World Poetry Day and everyone, from Unicef to Spotify, are getting involved online.

Some 1.5m deaths could be prevented each year if simple vaccinations were administered more widely, says Radhika Batra

A children’s book published in time for Christmas could make parents think twice about snapping up the latest computer game for their offspring.

Donncha O’Callaghan is hoping he can boost the work of Unicef Ireland by donating all the monies raised by a Testimonial Gala Ball in his honour in November to the organisation he has long served as an ambassador.

Pope Francis will arrive in Dublin at 10.30am tomorrow.

Poverty, inequality, and mental health are among the key issues for young people in Ireland.

A valuable tool in coping with modern life, a psychologist believes the early introduction of mindfulness can be hugely beneficial, writes Marjorie Brennan.

Cash payments work for families. Robert Putnam, the US author of Bowling Alone, quotes research showing that a €3,000-a-year-payment in a child’s first three years improves that child’s academic performance and increases his or her eventual salary by 20%.

Two-thirds of people believe parents should be financially supported to stay at home with their child for the first 12 months of its life.

Many teenagers look to older folk as mentors to guide and assist them in becoming mature adults. The winners of the West Cork Garda Youth Awards do things the other way around, advising, helping and inspiring people of all ages.

This abuse includes being called “Gorilla” and a “Monkey” on daily basis, as well as being told to “go back to your country”.

90% of the people in the African nation have health insurance, and life expectancy has increased by 19 years since 2000, says Agnes Binagwaho

Munster props James Cronin and Brian Scott, Connacht second-row Quinn Roux and Leinster’s Jordi Murphy make their first starts in the famous colours of the Barbarians who face Tonga at Thomond Park tonight (7.30pm).

The prospect of playing for the Barbarians against Tonga tomorrow night and in the same side as Donncha O’Callaghan is helping Munster’s James Cronin forget the injuries that have plagued and seriously damaged his career — with the prop now hopeful better times must surely lie ahead.

The World Para Swimming and World Para Powerlifting Championships, which were postponed due to the Mexico earthquake, have been rearranged.

Ireland’s suicide rate has stabilised and has begun to fall since the recession, according to the HSE’s National Office for Suicide Prevention (NOSP) 2016 report.

Why has the country with the worst breastfeeding rate in the developed world just axed its international breastfeeding development programme?

Bangladesh wants to protect vulernable children from getting harmed or involved in criminal activities.

About 240,000 children have fled Burma's Rakhine state into neighbouring Bangladesh over the last three weeks, according to a UN agency.

A trawler carrying Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Burma has capsized, drowning at least five people, as the UN said the crisis has pushed more than 125,000 refugees into Bangladesh.

George Clooney's foundation is planning to open seven public schools for Syrian refugee children.

Nearly 80% of Yemeni children need immediate humanitarian assistance amid the collapse of the country's health system in the face of the two-year-long civil war, three UN agencies have said.

The founder of Pieta House claims child psychiatry services in Ireland are in the worst possible condition imaginable.

So I’m reading a report. Unicef published it on Monday, and it says a lot of scarifying — even shaming — things about how children are doing in the rich countries of the world.

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From academic prowess to cutting-edge research, Ireland’s young women are an impressive bunch, writes Niamh Hennessy.

Munster and Irish second row forward, Donncha O'Callaghan has been announced as May’s ‘Cork Person of the Month’.

The evacuation of more than 3,000 Syrians from four areas as part of a population transfer has been postponed a day after a deadly blast killed more than 120 people, many of them government supporters.

No warning is given and no air raid sirens sound but the people of Sana’a city in Yemen know when the bombs are about to start falling.