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If you would like to speak to a member of our team about any aspect of our work, please get in touch with us using the details below.

Eamon Timmins

Media Relations Manager
Direct line: + 353 (0) 1 417 7712
Mobile: +353 (0) 87 988 0524
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Latest press releases

Dublin footballer and Concern Ambassador Michael Darragh Macauley playing volley ball with Syrian refugee children. Photo: Gavin Douglas/Concern Worldwide

Press release9 December 2019

GAA star Michael Darragh Macauley recalls ‘heartbreaking’ trip to meet Syrian refugees

Dublin footballer and Concern Worldwide ambassador Michael Darragh Macauley has urged the Irish public to help struggling Syrian refugees following his recent visit to Iraq.

Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the flooding. Photo: SHACDO

Press release

11 November 2019

Concern responds to extensive flooding in Somalia and Kenya

Concern Worldwide teams on the ground in Somalia and Kenya are responding to widespread flooding which has affected 2.5 million people across east Africa in recent weeks.

Press release

8 November 2019

Concern Worldwide wins national branding, communications and marketing award

Concern received the Branding, Communications and Marketing award at the annual Chartered Accountants Ireland Leinster Society Published Accounts Awards.

One-year-old Cecelia being tested for malnutrition.

Press release

16 October 2019

Malnutrition now 'a major global public health threat'

Humanitarian and development leaders have warned that malnutrition is now a "major global public health threat", with at least 50 million children worldwide suffering from an acute form of the condition.

Golden Marlenue, 27 outside her home with her young children. Her two youngest children Naomi, two and Athanase, 12 months, are both malnourished. Photo: Chris de Bode/Panos Pictures for Concern Worldwide

Press release

15 October 2019

GHI 2019: Climate change driving alarming levels of global hunger

Progress made since 2000 in reducing hunger on a global scale has been uneven, according to the 2019 Global Hunger Index (GHI) published today.

Lebanon Christmas appeal

Over 1.5m people have fled to Lebanon since the conflict in Syria began
Most are living in garages, abandoned buildings and makeshift tents, despite freezing temperatures
Can you help a family in Lebanon this Christmas?

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