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Dóchas Policy Officer Éamonn Casey responds to Deputy Ned O'Keeffe's call last week for Ireland to halt aid payments to the Third World, because we can no longer afford them.
The Charities Bill was signed into law by the President on Saturday, 28 February. Minister of State, John Curran, has indicated that the Act will be implemented in stages and full implementation could take up to two years.
Irish charities that depend on income earned though the sale of donated clothes in their charity shops will doubtless have welcomed the recent enactment of the Charity Act, which should go some way to stamping out the bogus clothing collectors.
Teen-Line, a suicide-prevention charity that helps young people in times of crisis, has slammed a “cruel” HSE funding cut that it fears will affect its ability to deliver services to teens at risk of self-harm.
With an ambitious fundraising target of €4.25 million, the Irish Cancer Society’s (ICR) annual Daffodil Day – which took place on Friday, 20 March - was always going to be a challenge.
A son of the late Tony Ryan, co-founder of Ryanair, has emerged as one of Ireland’s leading philanthropists, having donated €27m in five years to worthy causes through his One Foundation.
Niall Mellon, the founder of the Niall Mellon Township Trust, has been the driving force behind the construction of some 11,000 houses for the poor in South Africa. Now however Niall faces his own struggle as he has announced that he has gone from “boom to bust” and has lost most of his wealth due to the recession.
