National Spring Clean programme
Registrations for National Spring Clean 2024 are OPEN! National Spring Clean is Ireland’s most popular, well recognized and successful anti-litter initiative. Taking place during the whole month of April and …
Bowel Cancer Awareness Month Screening
Bowel screening aims to detect signs of bowel cancer at an early stage, where there are no symptoms. Bowel cancer is also known as colon, rectal or colorectal cancer. Around …
Testicular Cancer Awareness Month
What is testicular cancer? Testicular cancer is when normal cells in the testicles change and grow into cancer. The cancer can affect how the testicles work normally. Sometimes testicular cancer cells spread …
World Immunization Week
World Immunization Week, celebrated in the last week of April, aims to highlight the collective action needed to protect people from vaccine-preventable diseases. The goal of World Immunization Week is …
Cavernoma Awareness Month
Cavernoma Ireland is a voluntary support group whose mission is to help people living in Ireland who are affected by cavernoma, including friends, family, carers and professionals. They aim to …
Cancer Survivors Day
Cancer survivorship represents a unique phase in the cancer journey, marked by triumph over the disease and the challenges that come with it. It encompasses physical, emotional, and psychosocial aspects …
Scoot to School Week
Leading environmental management and education programme for schools. Promoting long-term, whole-school action for the environment Green-Schools is a student-led programme with involvement from the wider community. The programme is operated …
National Carers’ Week
“We are looking forward to co-ordinating another Carers Week for 2024 which will be running from June 10th to June 16th. All our partners will endeavour to make this week …
Men’s Health Awareness Week
International Men's Health Week (MHW) always begins on the Monday before Father's Day and ends on Father's Day itself. During 2024, it will run from Monday 10th until Sunday 16th …
Sarcoma Awareness Month
Sarcoma is very rare, and more research needs to be done to fully understand how these cancers develop and how best to diagnose and treat them. There are two main …
World Hepatitis Day
In 2016 the Irish government along with all other member states signed up to commit to ensuring the elimination of viral hepatitis as a major public health threat by 2030 (i.e. …
International Day of Friendship
Sharing the human spirit through friendship Our world faces many challenges, crises and forces of division — such as poverty, violence, and human rights abuses — among many others — …