Mary O’Reilly from Baldoyle in Dublin has given Syrian refugee Wassim a room in her home under the Irish Red Cross-run Register of Pledges. Read about their experience below. Background The Irish Red...
Launch of the 2016 annual report 2,299 patients in Ireland received first aid treatment from Irish Red Cross volunteers in 2016. These volunteers gave 200,000 hours of voluntary service which...
The Irish Red Cross has committed €25,000 to aid in the fight against a major cholera outbreak in Yemen. The donation follows the deployment of two Irish staff members in 2016 to assist in the...
The Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) today donated in excess of €80,000 retail worth of New Balance sportswear to the Irish Red Cross for migrants arriving in Ireland under the Irish Refugee...
One year ago the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in Nepal were transformed by the worst earthquake the country had experienced since 1934. The earthquakes destroyed or damaged about 800,000...
Red Cross emergency medical teams are still providing medical services to people living in evacuation centres in the small town of Mashiki in Kumamoto which was badly affected by the two earthquakes...
The Irish Red Cross has released a further €100,000 from its Migration Crisis Appeal to help migrants in Greece cope with plummeting temperatures.More than 27,000 winter kits for babies, children and...
Irish Red Cross has appointed an eight-person task force as part of the society’s scaling up of operations to assist victims of the migration crisis. The task force was announced last Saturday...
Initial assessments coming in from Red Cross field workers in Nepal indicate this morning's earthquake that hit north-east of Kathmandu has led to people being trapped beneath collapsed buildings...
The Irish Red Cross has sent a further €100,000 to help with humanitarian relief operation in Nepal after last weekend’s earthquake. Irish Red Cross Head of International said the replenishment of...