Events, Ireland

Money raised for Haiti at a coursing event has been refused by overseas development charity Goal after protests by the Irish Council Against Blood Sports.

A fundraising dinner held at the Manhattan home of Loretta Brennan Glucksman, Chairman of the American Ireland, has raised nearly $400,000 for the Lyric Theatre in Belfast.

A major fundraising campaign has beaten the credit crunch and raised £600,000 for three charities.

In a bid to raise money for charity, the first married couple ever to have climbed Everest have reached the summit.

Five hundred women from north west Ireland are to have a skinny dip to raise money for the Irish Cancer Society.

Support for the annual Alzheimer Society’s charity drive in Ireland has fallen by 20 per cent this year putting services at risk, its chief executive has told the Irish Times.

U2 will donate an estimated €9m of their summer tour profits to charity, according to newspaper reports.

The Irish Cancer Society is hoping this year's Daffodil Day fundraising drive will surpass its €4.25 million target, despite the country’s “changed economic environment”.

Just under nine months since starting six young Irish graduates who set out on a 25,000km charity cycle have raised €200,000 for street children in Kenya.

Drunken and unruly students have led the senior management of a Galway university to withdraw their support for the annual charity rag week.