Sally O Neill

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Sally O’Neill was killed following a road incident in Guatemala. Photograph: Mark Stedman/Trocaire/PA
‘We are immensely proud of her in a quiet way,’ Sally O’Neill’s sister says

Sally O’Neill, the veteran Trócaire figure who died in a car crash in Guatamala on Sunday, was one of Ireland’s most high-profile humanitarians, with (...)

Sally O’Neill pictured at Áras An Uachtarain in March 2015 with President Michael D Higgins and Sabina Higgins. Photograph: Maxwell’s
Trócaire stalwart Sally O’Neill dies in car crash in Guatemala

Tributes have been paid to Sally O’Neill, a leading figure in the overseas development organisation Trócaire, after her death in a car crash in Guatem(...)

President Michael D Higgins recalled that Archbishop Romero was known in El Salvador as “the bishop walks with the people”. Photograph: John Mc Elroy
President attends Mass celebrating Oscar Romero’s beatification

President Michael D Higgins praised the Catholic bishops’ agency Trócaire for its human rights work in El Salvador and its fight for social justice t(...)

Sharon Commins who was joint winner of the award in 2009. Photograph: Eric Luke / The Irish Times
Nominations sought for O’Flaherty humanitarian award

Nominations are invited for the 2015 Hugh O’Flaherty International Humanitarian Award which honours a person or organisation doing outstanding humanit(...)

Sally O’Neill (left) and Anne Enright in Honduras. Photo David Stephenson
Trócaire stalwart Sally O’Neill to retire in April

Tributes have been paid to Sally O’Neill, Trócaire’s head of region for Latin America, who is to retire next month. Ms O’Neill has been at the heart o(...)

Members of the Mara 18 gang show their tattoos in the National Penitentiary in Tamara, near the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa. Photograph: Elmer Martinez/AFP/Getty Images
Can these young Hondurans save their own lives?

It’s hard to overestimate the level of violence and instability in Honduras. Years of gang violence and drug wars have earned this Central American s(...)

A Metropolitan Police handout photo of Mary Konye who was jailed today for 12 years leaving a friend scarred for life in an acid attack. Photograph: Metropolitan Police/PA Wire.
Woman given 12-year sentence for ‘callous’ acid attack
  • UK
  • March 21, 2014, 21:40

A young woman who had acid thrown in her face by her friend has told how she considered killing herself after suffering life-changing scars as (...)

President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins told El Salvador’s president Mauricio Funes that the Irish people knew well from the Northern Ireland peace process of the need “to understand the tasks of ethical memory”. File photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire
Higgins urges El Salvador to reject ‘amnesia about the past’

President Michael D Higgins has drawn parallels between the conflicts in El Salvador and Northern Ireland on his first visit to the Latin American cou(...)