The annual Black Santa Sit Out, which has raised more than half a million euro for charity over the past 16 years, is launching its 2017 appeal today.

ISN’T it strange how, even if you’re no longer religious, the words of some of the Christmas hymns can still move you?

A Dublin cleric, better known as the city’s Black Santa, has raised €30,000 for charity in the annual Christmas sit-out on Dawson Street.

Northern Ireland’s firefighters tonight donated their £50,000 (€70,960) hardship fund to the victims of the Asian disaster.

Churchmen in Belfast resumed their famous Black Santa Christmas charity sit-out today to raise funds for the victims of the Asian earthquake.