Immigration and the rise and fall of the Irish far right in 2024
Violence continued to grow along with the disinformation campaigns targeting asylum seekers, but far-right candidates failed to turn their large social media followings into votes
Coolock unrest
Stories realting to unrest in Coolock, Dublin in 2024 over protests around old Crown Paints factory being prepared as accommodation for international protection applicants
The year in policing: how did Garda Commissioner Drew Harris respond to the biggest challenges of 2024?
Far-right-inspired violence and continued sluggish efforts to grow the Garda force dominated Harris’s final full year in charge
Dublin Bay North constituency candidates list: Element of randomness as Haughey, Bruton and Ó Ríordáin votes will scatter
Election 2024: Constituency has lost territory to Dublin North West and gained Balgriffin
Election 2024: What are the key immigration issues for voters?
Asylum seekers and refugees continue to arrive, protests have become common, and the State’s immigration system continues to flounder
‘They won’t be waltzing off into the sunset’: How the Dublin riots changed Irish policing
One year on from the riots, gardaí are using different tactics and more formidable equipment to tackle big public order disturbances
New Garda assistant commissioner to lead policing in Dublin region
Paul Cleary’s appointment to lead Dublin policing comes amid challenges of anti-immigration sentiment and crime in region
Coolock: High Court refuses to halt plans for migrant housing on former Crown Paints site
Judge said three plaintiffs’ legal documents were ‘awash in meaningless conspiracy theories’
Coolock factory will not be developed for asylum-seeker accommodation until gardaí are satisfied the site is safe, court told
Site was scene of violence and unrest over plans to develop it into accommodation
Violence at Coolock protest site ‘has not reoccurred’, High Court told
Judge is told a ‘residual’ protest remains outside the former factory, which is due to house asylum seekers
State needs to ‘learn lessons’ from escalation of anti-migrant protests in Coolock, Micheál Martin says
Tanáiste was responding to new footage of protests broadcast by RTÉ on Thursday night
‘I love Ireland. Ireland is 100% different to back home. It’s peace, calm’
Qareeb Urrahman came to Ireland from Afghanistan in 2021
Injunction to prevent Coolock site being used to house migrants sought in High Court
Three members of the public seek to restrain former warehouse from being redeveloped to house mostly Ukrainians
Too often our emotions – anger, frustration, fear – propel us to search for ‘facts’ to fit how we are feeling
There was a time – not too long ago – that we might roll our eyes and even feel a bit superior to Americans, given all the stupid things so many of them believe
Accommodating asylum seekers
High Court has judged that the Irish Government is breaching asylum seekers’ human rights
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