Two men from Cork are taking two weeks out of their time to transport vital aid to help people whose lives were destroyed by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

ADI ROCHE, founder of the charity, Chernobyl Children International, is to be given the Freedom of Cork.

Some of the world’s leading photographers, writers and film makers are set to take part in a new campaign run by Adi Roche’s Chernobyl Children International (CCI), to mark the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster this April.

The Lord Mayor of Cork will visit the Chernobyl nuclear power plant next week as he leads a historic Irish civic delegation to the region ahead of the 30th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear accident.

Pripyat was the poster city for Russia’s nuclear industry. Less than two miles from Chernobyl, it was a place of boundless promise. Darragh McKeon visits the ghost city that’s now a museum to the world’s greatest nuclear disaster.

There is no room for compassion or sentiment when it comes to making money.

AN Irishwoman whose charity has helped thousands of seriously ill children in the wake of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster has been awarded Ukraine’s highest humanitarian award.

A film-maker nominated for an Oscar today revealed how she braved the most radioactive place on earth to relive a true story.

Ukrainian mourners carried single red carnations and flickering candles during a solemn memorial ceremony early today to remember the 1986 Chernobyl explosion, an event that continues to scar the psyche of the ex-Soviet republic 20 years later.