Rioting, heavy gunshots and fires have broken out in Haiti's capital Port au Prince today.

SINGING and praying sounded across Haiti yesterday as ceremonies marked the moment a year ago to the day when the earthquake struck and left over 250,000 dead.

FOR many Haitians made homeless by last year’s earthquake, the possibility of having their own secure homes, gardens or even personal toilets are far off, maybe years away.

CLOSE to 1,000 women and girls have been raped in camps in the capital since last year’s earthquake in Haiti and orphaned teenage girls are being forced to sell their bodies for as little as one dollar to feed themselves.

AN historic symbol of hope and vitality reopened among the rubble of Haiti’s capital yesterday as figures showed the struggling country’s citizens were starting to leave emergency camps.

AN Irish soldier has been deployed to Haiti as part of a major UN mission to help the stricken nation prepare for the impact of the hurricane.

I find it hard not to think of the little babies I held in my arms in Haiti, writes Donncha O’Callaghan

Wyclef Jean has been hospitalised with stress and fatigue.

Wyclef Jean has branded Sean Penn a “coke sniffer” for criticising his bid for Haitian presidency.

AN Irish charity building houses in Haiti has said it has exceeded its targets in the impoverished country despite the destruction wrought by the hurricane last winter.

A Florida judge has ordered a "miracle" baby rescued from the rubble after the devastating earthquake in Haiti be reunited with her parents.

A Government scholarship to promote conflict resolution has been renamed in honour of the Irish-American United Nations worker who died in the Haiti earthquake, it was revealed today.

Aid agencies are overhauling the food distribution system in Haiti to prevent a repeat of riots and free-for-alls seen in parts of the capital, Port Au Prince.

Aid agencies are playing down suggestions of rising violence in the Haitian capital, Port au Prince.

IS it not rather inept that not a single reporter in RTÉ can pronounce the name of that stricken city Port au Prince? Surely the hint is in the middle preposition “au” that we are “en Francais”.

AER LINGUS will fly medical personnel and much needed aid to the survivors of the earthquake.

FLORENT MALOUDA showed his support for the relief efforts in Haiti after scoring Chelsea’s second goal in their 7-2 thumping of Sunderland.

IRISH charities are recording unprecedented donations to help respond to the Haiti earthquake disaster that has left possibly up to 100,000 people dead.

GOAL has enthusiastically welcomed the suggestion that the United Nations are to deploy immediately 5,000 policemen on the streets of Port au Prince.

DESPERATE efforts to get aid from the EU and other parts of the world distributed to the earthquake victims in Haiti are under way.

EARTHQUAKE survivors are sleeping next to bodies of people dead on the streets as an eerie silence grips the Haitian capital, Port au Prince.

Rescuers began a race against time to save the Haiti earthquake survivors today as a trickle of aid began arriving in the country.

AS many as 100,000 people are thought to have died in the devastating earthquake which shook the capital of Haiti.

IRISH nationals in Haiti yesterday told of the horrific impact of the massive earthquake.

The Government has announced that it is putting its Rapid Response Corps on standby for travel to Haiti.

The Red Cross says up to three million people have been affected by a major earthquake in Haiti.

Fourteen children kidnapped at gunpoint along with their bus driver on their way to school have been released unharmed, but an American missionary abducted in a separate incident remained in captivity, Haitian police said today.