http://www.goal.ie/ Goal News en-gb Copyright 2012 Goal. All Rights Reserved. Wed, 22 Feb 2012 9:07:36 GMT http://www.goal.ie/images/goal-apple.png http://www.goal.ie/ http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/124 The Department of Foreign Affairs has allocated €500,000 to GOAL to help them respond to the urgent needs of tens of thousands of refugees in the Maban region of South Sudan. This funding is in addition to an initial €200,000 provided to GOAL by Irish Aid for the same crisis in December.GOAL is currently implementing an emergency programme to Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:00:00 UTC http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/120     Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:00:00 UTC http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/123 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:00:00 UTC http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/122   Minister Joe Costello T.D. plays with some of the children at GOAL's street children's project in Addis Ababa Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:00:00 UTC http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/118 Longford schoolteacher, Tiernan Dolan, is a long-time supporter of GOAL. For more than 20 years he has been relentless in fundraising on behalf of the organisation across Longford and beyond, and in raising awareness of GOAL’s activities on behalf of the poorest of the poor. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:00:00 UTC http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/119   Kristilina Georgieva speaks with GOAL beneficiaries Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:00:00 UTC http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/116 On the second anniversary of the Haiti earthquake, GOAL’s Country Director in Port-au-Prince, Derek Butler, has warned that unless the international community fulfills its promises to rebuild the country, hundreds of thousands of earthquake survivors will remain without permanent homes, and extremely vulnerable to another natural disaster.Two years Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:00:00 UTC http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/114 The Department of Foreign Affairs today confirmed that it will allocate €200,000 to GOAL, for its emergency programme in the Maban region of Southern Sudan.GOAL is addressing the humanitarian needs of a growing displaced population in Maban, where refugee numbers are expected to reach 100,000 over the coming weeks. Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:00:00 UTC http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/110 GOAL has announced Leopardstown Racecourse as the location for this year’s flagship GOAL Mile on Christmas morning.   Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:00:00 UTC http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/107 The GOAL Mile breaks new ground this Christmas with the prisoners of Cloverhill Prison in Dublin staging the charity event for the poorest of the poor.Now in its 30th year, the GOAL Mile, traditionally held at venues throughout the country at and around Christmas Day, has proven to be a great fundraiser for the aid agency, who are poised to celebrate Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:00:00 UTC http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/104 The international community should hang its head in shame. Incalculable numbers of people are dying every day in Somali, and over half the population (four million people) is so severely malnourished that the UN estimates 750,000 could die over the next four months. Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:00:00 UTC http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/103 •    Having just completed building 8,085 houses in Kenya, GOAL has now spent US$1 billion on the poor of the developing world since 1977. •    This has been achieved on an extremely low cost administration basis Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:00:00 UTC http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/101   John O'Shea accepting his award Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:00:00 UTC http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/100 The position of the United Nations regarding the Horn of Africa drought and famine crisis, particularly in respect of Somalia, is becoming increasingly confused. Spokespeople for the parent body and its agencies seem on occasion to come quite close to contradicting one another. Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:00:00 UTC http://www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/98 The Irish Government, and by extension the Irish people are entitled to know why the Security Council of the United Nations appears to have abandoned the starving millions of Somalia.That is the assertion of GOAL, whose Chief Executive Officer John O’Shea said in a statement today: “The Irish nation has participated over a long number of years in Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:00:00 UTC