Letter of the day.

Great morning at the Global Solidarity Run in Dublin's Herbert Park. Runs are happening today in over 100 countries. #GlobalRun2025

The Simon Cumbers Media Fund, which funds journalists in Ireland to travel to report on development and humanitarian matters around the world, is open for applications.

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If I was an entrepreneur- which clearly I am not - I would be focusing my energies on Africa with its 1.5bn people, 60% of whom are under 30.

At the Africa Ireland Trade Horizons conference today the message for Irish businesses was simple: look south.

Incredible day yesterday at Africa Day in Kilmainham. A full day of music, culture and sun to celebrate Ireland's partnership with countries and people across Africa.

What you find when you lift up a carpet that was laid in 1973. A different world thankfully.

The international aid system is in crisis. Minister Neale Richmond writes in today's Irish Independent about how Ireland will respond by being even louder in its support for development cooperation.

www.independent.ie/opinion/neal...

In Sierra Leone with Minister Neale Richmond visiting Irish Aid partners. So much great work being done here, including by 95 year old Mullingar woman Sr Teresa McKeon!

Good to see Ireland among the first countries to announce funds to support relief efforts in Myanmar.

Safe to say they remember Diego with a degree of fondess in Naples.

It wasn't our day, but it was still a good day.

Brussels: come for the non-legally binding directives, stay for just about everything else.

A 96th minute winner in a stadium in a forest...Enjoyable debut at Union Saint Gilloise, even if they are the Belgian Bohs.