A SUMMIT of community leaders is urgently needed to tackle the scourge of violence in society, the Archbishop of Dublin said last night.

SUGGESTIONS that some schools are avoiding their obligation to young people by not enrolling non-English speaking students are being probed by the Department of Education.

Campaigners today won a three-year battle to force the Government to officially recognise its annual event commemorating the Famine.

THE long-running dispute between the board members of a charity specialising in farmer-to-farmer aid was resolved last night with the appointment of a new chairman.

Emergency funding of €1m has been granted in relief assistance to war-stricken Lebanon and Palestine.

President Mary McAleese today travels to Tanzania as part of her resumed trip to southern Africa.

The generosity of Irish citizens is extraordinary, a leading aid agency revealed today.

Irish troops are aiding in the transfer of the former President of Liberia, Charles Taylor, to face prosecution before a war crimes court in Sierra Leone, it emerged tonight.

Irish charities excelled themselves in their response to the Asian tsunami, Minister of State Conor Lenihan said tonight as he opened an exhibition to show Trócaire’s actions after the disaster.

The Irish Government today pledged €10m to a new United Nations emergency fund for humanitarian aid.

The Government today pledged €1m to the United Nations Appeal for Malawi.

IRELAND will help one of the African countries worst affected by Aids to “scale up” its treatment of children with the disease, Minister of State Conor Lenihan said last night.

THE Government is to renege on a promise made to the United Nations to meet overseas aid targets by 2007, Tánaiste Mary Harney confirmed yesterday.

Stars including Bob Geldof and Bono, along with former president Mary Robinson, have written to the Taoiseach calling on the Government not to roll back on its commitments to provide 0.7% of GNP to overseas aid by 2007.