With the successful launch this week of the Women and War Photography Exhibition in Dublin 2, we wanted to bring you some of our favourite Red Cross Exhibitions that are happening right now.  Here’s o 5 on Friday – Red Cross Exhibitions…

May 13th – 19th is National Volunteer Week 2013, to celebrate the Irish Red Cross is sharing real life experiences from volunteers around the country and encouraging more people to get involved with their local Red Cross. For more information about how you can get involved with the Irish Red Cross in your community, see www.redcross.ie/get-involved or [...]

On May 5th, a woman in her 50’s was out hiking with friends on Sligo’s iconic Ben Bulben when she fell into a disused mine shaft and plunged 10 meters into waist high icy water.  She was unharmed but trapped and unable to swim.  She clung on to the side of the mine shaft whilst [...]

Waterford school boy Harry is, in most respects, your average eight year old. He loves nothing more than playing football and playing with his friends. But unlike most 8 year olds, Harry is a lifesaver. In 2011, Harry’s family welcomed Isabelle, the latest edition to their family and the smallest as she was born premature. [...]

Ennis woman Shirley Benson has been a volunteer with the Irish Red Cross for many years.  As an experienced instructor, Shirley regularly trains members of the public in first aid.  At a day out with her family Shirley found out how much of a difference that training can make. At a local fun day, Shirley [...]

Fermoy schoolgirl Jemma Dearden is, in most respects, your average sixteen year old. But unlike most sixteen year olds, Jemma is a lifesaver. In the early hours of the morning, Jemma and her mother Julie were woken by shouts for help from the street below their bedroom windows. The teenager’s first aid training from the [...]

On a clear and mild day, James O’Brien took a boat out to go fishing on Lough Corrib. When, 75 year old, James failed to return home by dark his wife called the Gardai concerned he may have got into difficulty on the lake. The Gardai alerted the Coast Guard who immediately contacted the Irish [...]

Each year on May 8th the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement (RCRC) celebrate all that the Red Cross Red Crescent stands for; another hand extended, another kindness offered, a further shelter given, even another live saved. All these things and many more come under the umbrella of humanitarian action, but to the volunteers and workers [...]

By Dr Massimo Barra, Vice President of the Standing Commission of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent The expression ‘Red Cross Red Crescent Youth’ has always had two correlated significance: what youngsters can do for the Movement on one hand and what the Movement can do for youngsters on the other. In the ideal [...]

  “I started as a volunteer for the Red Cross youth in 1969”, remembers Oscar Zuluaga who first encountered the Red Cross in his hometown Cali in Colombia. “We did first aid courses and community work in poor quarters.  While interacting with children and young people, working together in drug and violence prevention I have [...]