Derek Blighe convicted and fined after refusing to make donation to Irish Refugee Council
Derek Blighe said he was willing to make a donation to other charities but not the charity which assists asylum seekers
Immigration
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High Court awards Peter Casey €140,000 damages for defamation in acupuncturist’s online post
Judge said ‘untrue’ and ‘defamatory’ post caused stress and upset to Mr Casey and his family
Economists need to get their story straight on immigration
Focusing on the impact on wages or employment levels of native workers is too narrow a frame of analysis
Judge halts man’s challenge to law enabling expedited development of asylum seeker housing
Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien introduced regulations last year allowing some asylum seeker accommodation to be classed as exempt development
Asylum applications made by Syrian nationals in Ireland paused after fall of al-Assad regime
Helen McEntee is due to discuss asylum issue at EU meeting on Thursday following ousting of Assad in Syria
Number of people illegally gained entry to Athlone international protection housing centre
Gardaí police 200-strong protest from town’s civic centre to the Midlands Accommodation Centre at Lissywollen
Hundreds detained in Northern Ireland trying to travel into Britain after crossing Border
Gangs are charging €8,000 for illegal travel packages that avoid an English Channel crossing, say officials
Homeless asylum seekers camped near Dáil offered accommodation after standoff with gardaí
Some 50 tents pitched at Kildare Place on Thursday after men told to leave ‘cold weather’ beds in Citywest
Dr Umar Al-Qadri: From a violent attack to online abuse, the hatred directed at me has been relentless
Diversity makes Ireland stronger, but it is under threat from rising intolerance, from those who say you’re not Irish if you 'don’t have a grandparent who fought for Irish independence'
Asylum seekers protest outside Dáil after having to leave ‘cold weather accommodation’
Irish Refugee Council criticises ‘illogical’ move by State authorities which is understood to impact around 135 men
Number of homeless international protection applicants passes 3,000
Record number of asylum seekers without accommodation comes as Government’s cold weather initiative ends
Irish food industry found lacking in workers’ rights for migrants, ESRI finds
Number of employment inspectors have ‘raised concerns’ about the effectiveness of enforcement efforts, report says
Six thousand become ‘free citizens of Ireland’ as department says record number of decisions made
More than 6,000 people are being granted Irish citizenship in seven ceremonies over two days
Ireland needs a major housing reset and this will discommode many. It has to
Just to keep up with present demand for housing, we require to build a city the size of Waterford every year for decades
‘It doesn’t have to be them or us’: Teachers behind new book of refugees’ stories want to challenge stereotypes
Leah O’Shaughnessy and Melanie Martin co-wrote the book in the wake of the Dublin riots
Dublin West constituency candidates list: Fine Gael Senator has decent chance of picking up Varadkar seat
Election 2024: Sinn Féin TD Paul Donnelly should be returned, but it might be a big ask for the party to take two seats
Dublin South-Central constituency candidates list: Sinn Féin’s reversal of fortunes has put paid to a second seat for them
Election 2024: Sinn Féin's Aengus Ó Snodaigh was just shy of two quotas in 2020
Dublin Mid-West constituency candidates list: Bellwether will show if voters are moving to anti-immigrant candidates
Election 2024: Sinn Féin hopeful of gaining two seats despite dwindling poll numbers
Dublin Central constituency candidates list: Entry of Gerry Hutch and Clare Daly make this an intriguing race
Election 2024: If the far right are to make a breakthrough to the Dáil, it could be here
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
Polish or Irish? ‘I wanted to fully integrate. But then I realised that you can be both and it’s not a problem’
Children from the ‘1.5 generation’ who were brought by their parents to live in another country, can struggle to belong, as documented in a new book
No Fianna Fáil 2011-type disaster for Sinn Féin but repeat of their 2020 success looks unlikely
Hostility to Sinn Féin over immigration has dissipated in its strongholds but the party has not yet captured the momentum of its successful 2020 general election campaign
Ukrainian woman (50s) arrested for allegedly trespassing former State-provided accommodation
Tetiana Kiselova was evicted from her accommodation after failing to pay the €10 daily fee
Dublin riots left north inner city youth ‘traumatised’ by the stigma of violence
Many young people remain on edge and feel unfairly blamed for the violence, while local youth workers question a system that ‘allows people to be born into poverty’
New Irish citizens: ‘I hear the racist and xenophobic slurs on the streets. Everything is blamed on immigrants’
Irish citizens who were born elsewhere, from Brazil to Poland, give thoughts on racism, childcare and Irish democracy
Anti-immigration candidates: Do any of them have a chance of winning a seat in the 34th Dáil?
Six people with anti-immigration positions were elected in the June local elections when it was a hot-button issue - the temperature is lower in this general election campaign
‘Not far right, not anti-immigration’: Independent candidates Gavin Pepper and Philip Sutcliffe seek to clarify what they stand for in Dublin
As one runs in Dublin North-West and the other in Dublin South-Central, the general election candidates reject ‘far right’ and ‘anti-immigration’ labels and say why they are asking people to vote for them
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
Incumbent governments sometimes forget that elections are about the future
Irish voters are always more focused on ‘more to do’ than on ‘a lot done’
Red Cross appeals to Irish communities to help bring Syrian families stranded in Lebanon to Ireland
67 Syrians among the hundreds selected for resettlement in Ireland in 2022 under the Irish Refugee Protection Programme
New ministerial order for Thornton Hall accommodation centre to be made ‘in weeks,’ says Dept
High Court told original ministerial order has been revoked after residents raised issue of noise protection
Sinn Féin pledges to cut asylum-application times by half
Election 2024: Party proposes a new immigration agency that would oversee international protection applications
Ireland needs its own Joe Rogan, someone to question liberal orthodoxies
There are lessons for Ireland from the US election about the disconnect between establishment voices and the feelings of the electorate
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