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Young poets tackle climate change and migration
Young people aged 11 to 18 years from across Ireland used their poetry to place themselves in the shoes of people forced...
Read ArticleAnswering the call of Laudato Sí: one year on
This week we are celebrating the first anniversary of the ground-breaking papal encyclical Laudato Sí, published o...
Read Article2016 Trócaire and Poetry Ireland Awards
The finalists of our annual poetry competition, run jointly will Poetry Ireland, gathered at the National Library in Dub...
Read ArticleJoin Trócaire’s 5km Hero Fun Run on 3 July
Adjust your capes and raise super amounts for those who need it most! Trócaire challenges you to join the fight for jus...
Read ArticleRemembering Berta Cáceres in Dublin
Last Saturday, April 16th, we remembered the fearless environmental activist and indigenous leader, Berta Cáceres who w...
Read ArticleCall on the new Irish Government to take #ClimateActionNow
Demand #ClimateActionNow! Sign up to the thunderclap today: https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/38869-climateactionnow?l...
Read ArticleOur 2016 Lent campaign has launched with new-look Trócaire box
We launched our 43rd Lent campaign this week, the biggest annual fundraising campaign in Ireland. For the first time, th...
Read ArticleThousands join climate marches across Ireland
Thousands of people took to the streets of Ireland on Sunday to call for a global deal on climate to be agreed at the UN...
Read Article5 reasons to join the climate march on Sunday
This Sunday, Dublin, Cork and Belfast will join over 150 cities around the world in hosting climate marches, where peopl...
Read Article800 attend Dublin screening of This Changes Everything
Over 800 people gathered in Dublin’s Merrion Square last Saturday to watch the Irish premiere of ‘This Changes Every...
Read ArticleBack to school with a big thanks from Trócaire
School bags are packed, books are covered, school uniforms are cleaned and alarms are set. It can only mean one thing. I...
Read ArticleWexford events raise €170,000 for Nepal
A group of people from Wexford who were in Nepal when the country was hit by an earthquake in April have raised over €...
Read ArticleMajor conference calls for immediate action on climate change
This week Trócaire, Maynooth University and St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, co-hosted a major two-day conference...
Read ArticleThe Power of Poetry – winners of the 2015 poetry competition
By Trish Groves, Campaigns Officer 2015 marks the fourth annual poetry competition run by Trócaire and Poetry Ireland. ...
Read ArticleA new generation of climate activists
By Jen Murphy, Development Education Coordinator Trócaire engages with school students of all ages through...
Read ArticleThe Fáilte Band took Trad for Trócaire to the students of the Zuze Primary School in Dedza, Malawi this week. &...
Read ArticleUK Aid Match funding in action
This Lent, the UK government will match, pound for pound, all public donations to the campaign in Northern Ireland, up t...
Read ArticleIrish Climate Bill: You asked, they listened!
Caption: clockwise from top left Paul Connaughton, Galway East TD, Fine Gael; Eoghan Murphy, Dublin South East TD, ...
Read ArticleFeeling the Heat: Poetry competition 2015 launch
by Trish Groves, Campaigns Officer Trócaire and Poetry Ireland are proud to launch our fourth joint poetry compe...
Read ArticleHow your donations made a difference in 2014
2014 was a year that saw people in Ireland deliver emergency aid to people caught in conflict, vital healthcare to those...
Read ArticleHow Trad music can change lives
By Lauren O’Kelly In September and October, wonderful people held hundreds of Trad for Trócaire sessions up and down ...
Read ArticleAfter 28,000 kilometres, Billy’s Big Cycle reaches its destination
He has been held-up at gunpoint, trapped in the middle of riots and dodged bears, but Dubliner Billy Lavelle (37) has co...
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