Irish charity Bóthar, which has been shipping livestock to developing countries for 25 years, now has the help of inmates of Shelton Abbey, Ireland’s open prison.

A Cork woman from a family of sporting legends is overseeing the construction of a creamery in Africa, supplied by cows cared for by convicted Irish criminals.

I would like to thank your readers for the fantastic support they gave to Bóthar’s recent ‘Matching Grant Appeal’. Without the support of individuals, communities and businesses throughout Co. Mayo, Bóthar wouldn’t be able to raise struggling families above the poverty line.

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Bóthar has made more than a third of its staff redundant after a sharp downturn in donations caused by the Rehab and Central Remedial Clinic controversies.

A Cork woman is helping the economy of a terror-stricken part of Africa by developing an Irish country creamery there.

Two of the country’s leading charities spent €500,000 on their Christmas gifts radio advertising campaigns in 2013.

Livestock aid charity Bóthar has recorded a €1.3m deficit for 2012 and has been “in crisis” for the past five years, according to its new chief executive.

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TONIGHT’S action at Curraheen Park is in aid of Bothar and it’s a card that starts slowly, but finishes with a flourish.

BÓTHAR, the Limerick-based charity which sends livestock every year to more than 5,000 families in 35 developing countries, has named second-in-command, David Moloney, as the organisation’s new chief executive.

THE founder of one of Ireland’s most successful charities, livestock aid organisation Bóthar, has announced his retirement as chief exec-utive after 20 years in the post.

A NEW world record was achieved in Limerick at the weekend when thousands of Irish and Welsh rugby fans lined out to support the third world charity Bóthar.

DURING the summer, the discovery of what some people believed was a sacred tree, in a church grounds in Rathkeale, Co Limerick, led to sensational headlines that set off a religious frenzy.

FORMER Gaelic Players Association President DJ Carey has called on inter-county players and the GPA to reconsider their demand for government grants in the existing economic climate.

THIS week’s budget cut €100m from our international development aid budget, and though it was unavoidable it was nonetheless disappointing.

Bóthar, the international development agency that specialises in the use of livestock, has announced that it has received a record-breaking’ response to its ‘Spring Calf Appeal’ for the donation of heifer calves to its Shelton Abbey prisoner rehabilitation project.

BÓTHAR, the international development agency that specialises in the use of livestock, has launched an unusual appeal to farmers.

MORE than 320 struggling Ugandan families are set to benefit from presents of goats cared for by Irish prisoners.

IRISH people have sent more than half a million tree saplings to Africa as part of a joint initiative launched last October.

PLAYING in a Munster final would have been easier than the ordeal hurling fans Michael Beehan and Podge O’Brien went though to raise funds for Bóthar, to send more livestock to needy families.

MORE than 400 goats were yesterday flown from Shannon to Tanzania, where each of the animals will be given to a family as part of the Bóthar helping programme.