Winner of the ActionTalks final Emma O'Sullivan

ActionTalks Final 2026

  • Date: 26/03/2026
  • Author: Jo-Ann Ward

The ActionTalks Speech Writing Competition, a national initiative run by ActionAid Ireland, invites students aged 14 to 18 to explore some of the most pressing global issues of our time. Now in its twelfth year, the competition encourages young people to think critically about global citizenship, justice, and human rights, and to examine the root.....

War in Ukraine – four years on

  • Date: 24/02/2026
  • Author: Jo-Ann Ward

As Ukraine enters the fifth year of full-scale war, Russia continues to destroy lives, tear families apart and cause widespread destruction to homes and essential services. The humanitarian crisis deepens as Ukraine experiences the coldest winter of the war. Since the start of the war on 24 February 2022, at least 12.7 million people have.....

Migrant women who led research at the launch of Between Hope and a Home

New research: Between Hope and a Home

  • Date: 13/01/2026
  • Author: Jo-Ann Ward

Lone-parent migrant families with legal status in Ireland are being forced to leave Direct Provision and their communities with no realistic way of securing housing, according to new peer-led research published today by ActionAid Ireland. The report, Between Hope and a Home, documents how lone parents – most of them women – face discrimination, unaffordable rents,.....