Red Nose Day helped raise more than £34 million for Comic Relief during its 40th anniversary, the BBC has revealed. The charity fundraiser, hosted at Salford’s MediaCity, saw sketches from some of the ...

The British charity, which was founded in 1985 by scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Sir Lenny Henry, was set up in response to the 1983 to 1985 famine ... people wear a red nose to ...

The long-standing impasse over ownership of the historic Bully’s Acre Famine Cemetery in Drogheda is nearing a conclusion as the Health Service Executive (HSE) and Louth County Council have now ...

The big (red nose) day is next week – here’s how you can buy a red nose for Comic Relief 2025 Comic Relief’s annual Red Nose Day fundraising event is back for 2025 – and that means many ...

More lethal than Kilkenny at their best when it comes to scoring goals, more all-consuming that Limerick in the way they are suffocating opponents out the field, the red famine may be about to end.

In the first act of the wittiest Irish play of the nineteenth century, Oscar Wilde’s “Importance of Being Earnest,” there is much ado about a shortage of food. The fearsome Aunt Augusta is ...

There are a good 10 famine areas where that has been declared, where people have no food, where people are dying of hunger. Out of the 10, we only have access to four. So six we, at this point in ...

Aid halt endangers Gaza civilians, UN agency warns Israeli measures affect Gaza's water and power supply 'No electricity, no water, no life,' says resident Red Cross says all aid supplies in Gaza ...

Instead, he cites reams of evidence to show that famine is not imminent. He also points out that Malthus became less pessimistic after a few years and cheekily observes that “Malthus was not a ...

The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) monitors drought, crop production, food prices and other indicators in order to forecast food insecurity in more than 30 countries. Funded by ...

This makes the recent publication of another book by Anne Applebaum especially timely. Entitled Red Famine: Stalin's war on Ukraine, it argues that four million people died of hunger in Ukraine in ...