Chernobyl charity founder Adi Roche to receive major international peace prize

Adi Roche will receive the award in recognition of her 'life-long contribution for the advancement of the cause of peace'. File picture: Gareth Chaney/ Collins 

Chernobyl crusader Adi Roche will finally collect a major international peace prize this weekend after covid delayed the formal ceremony.

The founder and voluntary chief executive of the Chernobyl Children International charity will become the first Irish person to collect the Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize on Saturday, in recognition of her "life-long contribution for the advancement of the cause of peace”, when she attends the National Peace Symposium at the Baitul Futuh Mosque, in London — one of the largest mosques in Europe.