Events will include African-themed film festivals, art exhibitions, seminars, football tournaments, school visits, a flag procession, and street festivals and family fun days with live performances by African and Irish musicians.

“She paid a high price and her family and friends suffered an unimaginable loss. Her integrity gives her still today a noble place our recent history.”

Just 129 doctors in the whole of Sierra Leone which has a population of 6 million.

24-year-old Director of the Liberia Mission of the Franciscan Works charity arrived in West African country in February 2013.

Monumental achievement for a country that reported the highest number of deaths in the largest, longest and most complex outbreak of Ebola since it first emerged in 1976.

Missionary Sisters of the Holy Rosary nun warns epidemic is not yet over and there can be no complacency until there are zero cases.

Pure in Heart hosts presentation to adolescents on healthy attitudes to love and relationships.

One of the teachers at a school in Galway recently said, ‘I believe my students might never hear this message again’.

Approximately 5 million people in Sierra Leone will benefit from new programme.

In their Christmas messages, Catholic and Church of Ireland bishops express concern for those living in the "grip of fear".

Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Kieran O’Reilly SMA as Archbishop of Cashel & Emly following the resignation of Archbishop Dermot Clifford on grounds of age.

City of Liberia put under quarantine resulting in 75,000 people being sealed into a densely-packed slum.

Misean Cara donates €15,000 to catholic hospital in Liberia to prevent spread of virus.

John of God brothers in Ireland desperately collecting funds for Ebola victims in their hospitals in Liberia and Sierre Leone.