Cost of accommodating asylum seekers could be cut by 60% under new rules, suggests Government
Indicative future cost could fall from €123,000 per applicant to under €50,000, contingent on cutting processing times from 29 months to nine
Migrant Crisis
Six dead and 40 missing in boat disaster off Italian island of Lampedusa
Coastguard rescues 10 people and search resumes after half-sunken dinghy spotted near islet
French police evict over 400 migrants squatting in Paris theatre for months
Riot police approach theatre amid protests by demonstrators shouting ‘shame’ as they shield themselves from tear gas
More than 15,000 international protection appeals could be lodged this year, Minister told
Department of Justice to face challenges getting personnel to operate the appeal system
State stops opening new asylum seeker centres in certain areas due to ‘local feedback’ and ‘violent protest’
Number of arson attacks recorded far higher than previously reported
Deportation reforms criticised as ‘new low’ for European Union
New proposals for EU-wide deportation orders aim to ‘firm up’ asylum rules
Incoming German coalition promises crack down on immigration
CDU leader indicates he is open to common European nuclear umbrella
International protection system records death of 14 asylum seekers last year
Statistics show 11 men and two women died in the international protection system in 2024, while another individual’s gender was not recorded
Overheard chat on the train showed me the secret behind far-right AfD’s growth in Germany
The German party’s secret weapon is its self-radicalising multipliers
Germany on course for grand coalition between conservatives and social democrats after CDU victory
Friedrich Merz is on track to be the next German chancellor in election where far-right AfD doubled support
Germany faces tricky talks on new coalition as far-right AfD becomes electoral force
A tired-looking Olaf Scholz says that just as the 2021 victory was his, the 2025 defeat was also his
German elections: ‘A bad feeling is growing’ as country looks for bridge to better future
On Sunday, 59.2 million German voters go to the polls at a time of unprecedented domestic and international tensions
Young homeless migrants ‘forgotten by the State’ occupy Paris theatre
Hundreds of homeless migrants take over Gaîté Lyrique in protest against French authorities
Germany to set up centralised deportation facilities in bid to tackle migration
Opposition politicians denounce ‘Dublin Centres’ as pre-election gestures by a government that has lost control of asylum process
Spain to give legal status to 25,000 migrants affected by Valencia floods
Measure aims to ‘protect foreigners in situations of maximum vulnerability’
Number of Palestinians seeking asylum in Ireland rises eight-fold
Israel must respect that ‘Ireland is for Irish people and Palestine is for Palestinians’, says Palestinian ambassador to Ireland
What it would take for America to deport 11 million immigrants
Donald Trump has promised mass deportations but his plans will face enormous financial, legal and logistical hurdles at every step of the process
European political centre may regret borrowing from far-right’s migration playbook
By trying to cut off support for the far right, the European centre is normalising their extreme policies
What’s it like to be 25 in Ireland today? 70% live at home with their parents, CSO finds
Fewer than one in 20 own their own home, almost seven in 10 live with their parents, one in eight have emigrated - a snapshot CSO survey shows the pressure on twentysomethings
Planning exemption for conversion of Dublin 4 office into asylum-seeker housing challenged
Co Louth-based John Conway wants High Court to strike down Dublin City Council’s decision
Fifty people die during crossing to Canary Islands, says Spanish charity
Total of 10,547 migrants died trying to reach Spain by boat last year, according to monitoring group Caminando Fronteras
Case of Afghan boy (15) allegedly forced back out to sea on raft ruled inadmissable by human rights court
Child‘s statements ‘contradictory and inconsistent at times’ while he failed to prove he was in Greece at time of alleged events
Ten predictions experts made about the world in 2025. All of them are wrong
When it comes to predicting the future, you might as well ask an astrologer as a rational expert
Elon Musk article praising far-right AfD condemned by German political parties and press bodies
CDU leader and other politicians criticise media group Axel Springer over publication of opinion piece by US billionaire in Welt am Sonntag
‘No place to hide’: Trapped on the US-Mexico border, immigrants fear deportation
Thousands of illegal immigrants living in a netherworld along the Texas border are braced for the likelihood of a long-promised crackdown once Donald Trump assumes office
Ceann comhairle vote: Harris urges TDs to support Verona Murphy despite his previous concerns over ‘stoking’ of ‘unfounded racist fears’
Micheál Martin also calls on Fianna Fáil TDs to vote for Wexford TD but in 2020 described her remarks on asylum seekers ‘quite dangerous’
Minister concedes in High Court challenge to order facilitating asylum-seeker housing in Athlone
Roderic O’Gorman’s plan for site to rear of direct provision centre in Lissywollen to be considered an ‘unauthorised development’
The Color of Family: History, Race and the Politics of Ancestry: Academic page-turner decodes US administrative racism
Michael O’Malley explores how scientific biology informs the arbitrariness of ‘racecraft’ found in family records
‘We need time’: Syrians in Europe resist calls to return home
Refugees in Germany and elsewhere are in ‘wait and see’ mode after fall of Assad regime
EU to limit asylum rights in response to Russian ‘weaponisation’ of migration
European Commission clears countries to take emergency measures to stop Russia facilitating migrant flows into eastern states
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
A Dante for Ireland: Exile and purgatory reinvented for the dislocated
Colcester, Florence, Belfast and elsewhere all intermingle in Philip Terry’s version of Dante’s Purgatorio
Britain pauses Syrian asylum decision process after fall of Assad
Focus will be reflection on ‘diplomatic relations with Syria’ and a cautious observation of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham
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
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